This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. The …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and …

US which increased employment protection from 0 to 12 weeks. We find that mothers eligible for FMLA speed up their return … with no paternal shock. In contrast, there was a negligible insurance response for mothers with no employment protection …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave … mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline in high school dropout and an 8% increase in wages at age … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …