Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296022 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10933
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings roughly a decade after they gave birth.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
maternity leave
JEL: 
J08
J16
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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