Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333632 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18193
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We provide a full reexamination of the effects of a maternity leave extension implemented in Norway in 1977. Previous research reporting large favorable long-term effects on mothers' health and on offspring's educational and labor market outcomes relied on an incorrect description of the reform and an invalid identification strategy. In the present paper, we show that the previously reported results are misleading. Building on an accurate description of the reform and its implementation, we document that it had no noticeable long-term effects on mothers' health or on offspring's education and labor market outcomes.
Subjects: 
family policies
maternity leave
replication
JEL: 
C52
J13
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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