Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women's Labor-Force Attachment? | Zendy

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Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women's Labor-Force Attachment?

Author(s) -

Tanya Byker

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.p20161118

Subject(s) - parental leave , duration (music) , childbirth , maternity leave , demographic economics , affect (linguistics) , labour economics , economics , family leave , current population survey , national longitudinal surveys , law , political science , psychology , work (physics) , population , demography , sociology , pregnancy , engineering , mechanical engineering , art , literature , communication , biology , genetics

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 research design estimates impacts of paid leave laws in California and New Jersey on women's labor-force outcomes around childbirth. I find that paid leave laws are associated with a substantial increase in labor-force attachment in the months directly around birth. While US-style short-duration leave is unlikely to change prolonged exits from the labor force, my findings imply that paid leave laws induce some women stay more attached to jobs, particularly low-skill women.

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