Parental benefit encouraged people to have children in Estonia, but fathers mainly applied for financial reasons

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- A generous parental leave reform was introduced in Estonia in 2004. This increased the likelihood of a second or third child being born into the family and also shortened the interval between births, according to Sanan Abdullayev's doctoral thesis, defended at Tallinn University. At the same time,…