PARENTAL leave lawsINFANT healthPARENTAL leaveBREASTFEEDINGPARENT-child relationshipsThe effects of paid parental leave policies on infant health have yet to be established. In this paper we investigate these effects by exploiting the introduction of California Paid Family Leave (PFL), the first program...
Seven states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington) and the District of Columbia have since introduced paid leave laws, and most provide support for 12 weeks. Five Future Directions Unless the 37 states currently without coverage create their own...
(2016). Paid parental leave laws in the United States: Does short-duration leave affect women’s labor-force attachment? The American Economic Review, 106(5), 242–246. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161118 Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Carlson, M. J., & Magnuson, K....
public policies that potentially influence the work decisions of mothers of infants€"parental leave laws, exemptions from welfare work requirements, and child care subsidies for low-income families. We estimate the effects of these policies on the timing of work participation after birth, and on a...
Byker TS (2016) Paid parental leave laws in the United States: does short-duration leave affect women’s labor-force attachment? Am Econ Rev: Pap Proc 106(5):242–246 Article Google Scholar Campa P, Serafinelli M (2019) Politico-economic regimes and attitudes: female workers under state ...
Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women's Labor-Force Attachment? I analyze the effects of short-duration paid parental leave on maternal labor supply. Using monthly longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, my event-study...
To date, four states -- California, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York -- have passed guaranteed paid family leave laws. And cities like New York, Portland and San Francisco have adopted their own paid parental leave policies. There are ongoing efforts to do the same at the federal ...
The President estimates that the cost of this plan will be $225 billion over the next 10 years, which sounds a bit optimistic. The cost of a much more modest paid leave proposalchampioned by Ivanka Trump-- which would have applied only to parental leave, would have provided ...
responsibility for team members, are educated about the benefits that their team members can access by way of flexible parental leave options, to ensure that those managers not only comply with the laws, but support the flexible approach that this legislation is designed to encourage wit...
Paid parental leave policies have the potential to strengthen economic supports, reduce family discord, and provide opportunities to empower women (Basile et al., 2016; Niolon et al., 2017). In this article, we present a theory of change and evidence to suggest how paid parental leave may ...