@techreport{878fc606f89e46ffaa87d5c7bb3b9b4d,
title = "Becoming a mompreneur: Parental leave policies and mothers' propensity for self-employment",
abstract = "Contractionary parental leave policy reforms decrease the time mothers can stay at home after giving birth. This might discourage them to become an entrepreneur. Exploiting a German parental leave policy reform, we apply a regression discontinuity approach to establish a causal relationship between parental leave policies and the probability for mothers to become entrepreneurs (i.e., “mompreneurs”). We find that a decrease in the generosity of parental leave lowers the odds of mothers to become self-employed by 17%. We show additional evidence that suggests that this is particularly due to the reduced period of paid parental leave.",
keywords = "female entrepreneurship, mompreneurs, parental leave, policy reform, female labor supply",
author = "Ruud Gerards and Pomme Theunissen",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "4",
doi = "10.26481/umagsb.2018025",
language = "English",
series = "GSBE Research Memoranda",
publisher = "Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics",
number = "025",
address = "Netherlands",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics",
}