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My research aims at understanding how fathers’ risk behaviour changes after a child’s birth. I use Stats NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), particularly the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) claims data, to identify non-work-related injuries like sports and household accidents. I use the identification strategy of Fadlon and Nielsen (2019) and a dynamic difference-in-differences model to estimate how the number of accidents changes compared to pre-birth levels. I provide evidence that men reduce their likelihood of making non-work-related injury claims for up to two years post-childbirth. Importantly, by classifying the empirical analysis by injury types, I find that this variation is largely driven by a change in behaviour with respect to sport-related injury claims for older fathers and younger non-European fathers. 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