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Paid Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes

Author(s) -

Danzer Natalia,

Lavy Victor

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12493

Subject(s) - maternity leave , duration (music) , parental leave , demographic economics , demography , work (physics) , test (biology) , psychology , economics , sociology , national longitudinal surveys , mechanical engineering , engineering , art , paleontology , literature , biology

This article investigates whether schooling outcomes at age 15 are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. the time mothers spend at home with their new‐born before returning to work. We exploit an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected parental leave from 12 to 24 months for births as of 1 July, 1990. Using PISA data from the cohorts 1990 and 1987, we find no significant overall impact of the parental leave extension on standardised test scores. However, subgroup analyses reveal strong heterogeneity by maternal education and child gender.

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