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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

is not present for very young children. We next examine differences in specific parental teaching activities such as …

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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 … indicate no positive effect on indices of children's cognitive and behavioral development. We uncover a small negative impact …

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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

first year of their children's lives. We find that this extra maternal care primarily crowded out home-based care by … very close to zero. Some improvements in temperament were observed but occurred both for treated and untreated children. …

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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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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988

Baker, Michael; Fortin, Nicole M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this relationship in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in ``female jobs'' well as important limitations...

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Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

Baker, Michael; Fortin, Nicole M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

We investigate the effect of pro-active comparable worth legislation covering both the public and private sectors on wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian province of Ontario in the early 1990s. We document...

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