This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known
about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall …

This article reviews the evidence on the impacts of paid family and medical leave (PFML)
policies on workers' health, family well-being, and employer outcomes. While an extensive …

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate
by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and childcare, using administrative data …

Over the last couple years, the world has experienced the highest levels of inflation in more
than four decades. This paper provides a framework for analyzing the causes and the …

Becoming a parent is a transformative experience, marked by hormonal changes and
neuroplasticity as well as shifts in self-concept, social roles, and daily routines. Although the …

Overloadwas first published in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading
across the United States and the globe. With states issuing stay-at-home mandates and …

We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to
delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich …

Using difference‐in‐difference and difference‐in‐difference‐in‐difference designs, we study
California's Paid Family Leave (CA‐PFL) program, the first source of government‐provided …

While women comprise over half of all undergraduate students in the United States, they
account for less than one-third of economics majors. From there, the proportion of women at …

This paper uses IRS tax data to evaluate the short-and long-term effects of California's 2004
Paid Family Leave Act (PFLA) on women's careers. Our research design exploits the …