Sevrin Waights
waights.bsky.social
Sevrin Waights
@waights.bsky.social
Applied microeconomist: Labour, gender, family. Guest Prof HU Berlin and Berlin School of Economics. Senior Consultant at DIW Econ.
🚨 New research insight on parental leave, gender inequality, and family policy in Germany 🚨

Accepted at The Economic Journal 🎉

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Parental Leave Benefits and Gender Inequality: Evidence from a Benefits Cap for High-Earning Mothers*
Abstract. I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impacts of mothers’ parental leave benefit amounts on c
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September 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM