Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and
recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation …

Will advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning put vast swaths of the
labor force out of work or into fierce competition for the jobs that remain? Or, as in the past …

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 …

Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth
century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their …

This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we
identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six …

We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small
firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find …

Women and workers over 50 disproportionately provide care for aging family members
worldwide, including the 101 million who are care-dependent. Paid leave for adult health …

Objective To study the effect of California's first in the nation paid family leave policy on
maternal postpartum psychological distress for women overall and for disadvantaged …

Caregiving needs in the United States reach across the life cycle. Every day, 10,800 babies
are born, 4,754 new cases of cancer are diagnosed, and 1,329 people develop Alzheimer's …

This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding and
immunizations–two critical parental investments in infant health–which we identify using …