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

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …

educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that …, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings …

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

. Effects are concentrated among socioeconomically disadvantaged mothers, especially those that are unmarried. Results are also … most apparent for mothers of young children. Altogether, our results suggest that the increased work associated with EITC … expansions over time has done little to reduce the time mothers devote to active learning and development activities with their …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects …

well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households. Using difference-in-difference and …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …