Andreas Steinhauer
Affiliation
Andrea's (he/him) is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Edinburgh and a labour and public economics affiliate, CEPR. His research area is applied econometrics, with a particular focus on labor and family economics. His current research projects focus on fertility and female labor supply, parental leave systems, discrimination and the gender wage gap.
Current and notable research projects/ publications:
- "Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation" Abstract: Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender convergence.
- "Child Penalties across Countries: Evidence and Explanations" Abstract: This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences in the magnitude of the effects. We discuss the potential role of family policies (parental leave and childcare provision) and gender norms in explaining the observed differences.
- "Firm Adjustments to Worker Absence: Evidence from Four Family Policy Regimes" Abstract: How do firms adjust when mothers take parental leave in a highly gender segregated labor market? How does it depend on the leave duration? How does it affect within firm gender inequality? To answer these questions, we study the effects of having a female employee being absent due to parental leave following her first childbirth using a dynamic difference-in-differences design.