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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 587–615.
Published: 08 March 2018
...Nicole Guertzgen; Karsten Hank Abstract Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers’ postbirth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 787–812.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Marigee Bacolod; Jennifer A. Heissel; Laura Laurita; Matthew Molloy; Ryan Sullivan Abstract This study exploits changes in paid maternity leave offered by one of the United States’ largest employers, the Department of Defense, to estimate the effect of such policies on mothers' leave-taking. Since...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1699–1714.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Cuong Viet Nguyen Abstract This research note examines the long-term effect of female teachers’ longer maternity leave on children's education and disability in Vietnam. Having a child a few months before or just after the summer vacation can increase paid leave for female teachers. Using variation...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 2 Yearly average maternity leave used in the 12 months following birth, by month of birth. Vertical dashed lines indicate a change in maternity leave from 6 to 18 weeks (as of January 1, 2015) and from 18 to 12 weeks (around November to December 2016). The figure includes the linear fit
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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 3 Average monthly maternity leave used in each of the 12 months following birth, by policy. Data for May 2015 and November to December 2016 are excluded.
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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 5 Distribution of maternity leave used in the 12 months following birth, by month of birth. The figure plots average maternity leave used at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for a given month, as well as the median leave taken. Panel a shows data for all mothers; panels b
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 145–155.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Jacob Alex Klerman; Arleen Leibowitz Abstract In the early 1990s, both state and federal governments enacted maternity-leave legislation. The key provision of that legislation is that after a leave of a limited duration, the recent mother is guaranteed the right to return to her preleave employer...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 May 1999
... between maternal employment and breast-feeding using 1993-1994 data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Infant Feeding Practices Study. We first explore the simultaneous duration of breast-feeding and work leave following childbirth. We find that the duration of leave from work significantly...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 503–519.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Adriaan Kalwij Abstract This article analyzes the impact on fertility of changes in national expenditure for family allowances, maternity- and parental-leave benefits, and childcare subsidies. To do so, I estimate a model for the timing of births using individual-level data from 16 western European...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 4 Annual chargeable and total leave by month of birth for mothers and female comparisons. The figure plots average chargeable (annual) and total (maternity and chargeable) leave used in the 12 months following birth by month of birth or month of match. Vertical dashed lines indicate
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1819–1844.
Published: 01 December 2024
... dependent on the couple's prebirth relative earning pattern. Longer paid maternity and family leave for mothers exacerbates the parenthood effect on couples’ division of paid labor, whereas greater childcare provision weakens this effect. However, these policy impacts are observed only among male main...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 545–563.
Published: 01 November 1992
... of schooling seem to forgo more labor market activity by reason of childbearing than do their better-educated counterparts. The pattern is less clear with respect to the loss of income. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 Time Expenditure Maternity Leave Labor Market...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 191–200.
Published: 01 February 2003
... in sharp contrast to most other industrialized nations that have had maternity-leave legisla- tion for a long time and more recently have added paternity or parental-leave legislation. Until 1993, when the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted and signed into law, the United States relied...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1931–1954.
Published: 01 October 2021
... opportunities for career advancements. After 1989, these countries underwent significant economic transformations, shifting from the security of generous welfare states to the instability of free market economies. Policies were dismantled, and maternity leave and subsidies for childcare were substantially...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2255–2277.
Published: 18 October 2013
... for the mother around the time of birth, parents could share the parental leave between them as they desired. Although paid maternity leave was contingent only on the mother working at least 50 % of full-time prior to birth, paid paternity leave was contingent on both parents working at least 50 %. Income...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1493–1522.
Published: 01 October 2023
... It is important to note that in Baum (2003) , the analysis focused on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the United States in 1993 and that the policy guaranteed 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible mothers. The author argued that the short and unpaid nature of the maternity leave could explain...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 559–576.
Published: 08 April 2020
... Economic Review , 88 , 450 – 477 . Avendano , M. , Berkman , L. F. , Brugiavini , A. , & Pasini , G. ( 2015 ). The long-run effect of maternity leave benefits on mental health: Evidence from European countries . Social Science & Medicine , 132 , 45 – 53 . Berkman...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... , & Rose E. ( 2000 ). Parenthood and the Earnings of Married Men and Women . Labour Economics , 7 , 689 – 710 . 10.1016/S0927-5371(00)00020-8 Mair J. ( 2000 ). Maternity Leave: Improved and Simplified? . Modern Law Review , 63 , 877 – 86 . 10.1111/1468-2230.00298 Mandel H...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 135–164.
Published: 18 December 2017
... maternity leave was introduced in 1955 and was supplemented by paternal leave in 1974 (ifo Insitute 2015 ). 1 In Denmark, publicly funded childcare for children within one year after birth was introduced as early as 1964 (Garrouste 2010 ). Further, generous old-age benefits following retirement...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 August 1995
... . Econometrica , 55 ( 4 ), 765 – 99 . 10.2307/1911029 O’Connell M. ( 1990 ). Maternity Leave Arrangements: 1961–85 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports , Series P-23(165): 11–57, Work and Family Patterns of American Women . Washington, DC : U.S. Government Printing Office...
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