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Title: Paid Maternity Leave and Women's Human Capital: Evidence from California

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Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: I test whether the implementation of the California Paid Family Leave Act increased young women's human capital investment, specifically college enrollment. Using a synthetic control approach , I estimate that the policy increased the probability that women enroll in college by about 2 percentage points. This effect is statistically significant at the 5% level and persists for at least several years. I present a simple human capital model of women's schooling choices that characterizes these results as the effect of an expected decrease in the effects of motherhood on labor supply. Finally, I present evidence from survey data and Internet searches that provides support to the hypothesized mechanism: women are more likely to enroll in college because they expect that the policy will increase their future labor supply.

Url: http://papers.nataliaordazreynoso.com/NOR_JMP_OCT.pdf

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Authors: Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz

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Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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