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Title: The Effect of Paid Family Leave and its Job-Protection variant on Mother's Leave-Taking, and Short-term Labor Market Outcomes
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of California's, New Jersey's, Rhode Island's, and New York's paid family leave (PFL) programs on mothers' leave-taking, and short-term labor market outcomes following childbirth. This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2020 and a difference-indifference approach to evaluate leave-taking, as well as a difference-indifference in difference approach to evaluate the short-term labor market outcomes. I obtain evidence that PFL increases Part-time workers' leave-taking by 3 percent, while Job-Protected PFL leads to a 17.2 percent increase in mothers being employed and at work the year of childbirth. I also provide evidence of PFL increasing part-time workers'usual weekly hours worked by 6 hours, following childbirth.
Url: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eco/undergraduate/papers/avendano---paid-family-leave,-2021.pdf
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Authors: Avendano, Paloma
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Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare
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