This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following … policy environment has important effects, particularly for less advantaged mothers. There is a potential conflict between … policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …

This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following … policy environment has important effects, particularly for less advantaged mothers. There is a potential conflict between … policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …

find that young children continue to have a very negative effect on women's employment, particularly in Britain. We also …

This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following … policy environment has important effects, particularly for less advantaged mothers. There is a potential conflict between … policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …

This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following … policy environment has important effects, particularly for less advantaged mothers. There is a potential conflict between … policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …

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 … examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following …

well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households. Using difference-in-difference and … year of their children's lives when CA-PFL is available. We also examine how parents allocate leave in households where … larger for fathers of sons than for fathers of daughters, and almost entirely driven by fathers of first-born children and …