Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177185 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11381
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue under debate. We use ten years of linked administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the first state-level paid family leave program for women with earnings near the maximum benefit threshold. We find no evidence that a higher weekly benefit amount (WBA) increases leave duration or leads to adverse future labor market outcomes for mothers in this group. In contrast, we document consistent evidence that an increase in the WBA leads to a small increase in the share of quarters worked one to two years after the leave and a sizeable increase in the likelihood of making a future paid family leave claim across a variety of specifications.
Subjects: 
paid family leave
regression kink design
leave duration
maternal labor supply
temporary disability insurance
JEL: 
I18
J13
J16
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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