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How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers' Employment and Infant Health?

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at home post birth. We provide new evidence of the labor supply effects of these leaves from an analysis of the introduction and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in...

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Maternity Leave and Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Development

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We investigate the impact of maternity leave on the cognitive and behavioral development of children at ages 4 and 5, following up previous research on these children at younger ages. The impact is identified by legislated increases in the duration of maternity leave in Canada, which...

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O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada

Edlund, Lena; Milligan, Kevin; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian countries, notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, focussing on sex ratios across generations...

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Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent between 48 and 58 percent more time not working in the first year of their children's lives. We find that this...

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Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Public health agencies around the world have renewed efforts to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding. Maternity leave mandates present an economic policy that could help achieve these goals. We study their efficacy focusing on a significant increase in maternity leave mandates in...

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...

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Taxation and Top Incomes in Canada

Milligan, Kevin; Smart, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the elasticity of reported income with respect to tax rates for high earners using subnational variation …. We find that elasticities of reported income at the provincial level are large for incomes in the top one percent, but … small for lower earners. There are strong indications that the response happens both through earned and capital income …

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Life-Cycle Asset Accumulation and Allocation in Canada

Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper documents the life-cycle patterns of household portfolios in Canada, and investigates several hypotheses about asset accumulation and allocation. Inferences are drawn from the 1999 Survey of Financial Security, with some comparisons to earlier wealth surveys from 1977 and 1984. I find...

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