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| Title: | | The effects of California's paid family leave program on mothers' leave-taking and subsequent labor market outcomes  |
| Authors: | | Rossin-Slater, Maya Ruhm, Christopher J. Waldfogel, Jane |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6240 |
| Abstract: | | This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled the overall use of maternity leave, increasing it from around three to six or seven weeks for the typical new mother - with particularly large growth for less advantaged groups. We also provide suggestive evidence that PFL increased the usual weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen by a similar amount. |
| Subjects: | | parental leave maternity leave leave-taking paid leave maternal employment |
| JEL: | | J2 J13 J18 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201202285098 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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