Fathers Wanted Fewer Kids After They Got Paternity Leave, Study Shows
(World News Science)

In 2007, the Spanish government introduced a policy which gave most new fathers the opportunity to take two weeks of paternity leave with full pay-a program that has been expanded in the subsequent years. More than a decade later, two economists have looked into the potential consequences of the original policy by analyzing data on families who had children before and shortly after it was implemented-and the findings are intriguing, Quartz reported. Lídia Farré from the University of Barcelona and Libertad González of Pompeu Fabra University found that in one sense, the program...