TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rossin-Slater, Maya
AU  - Ruhm, Christopher J.
AU  - Waldfogel, Jane
        TI  - The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
        PY  - 2011/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6240
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6240
        AB  - This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled the overall use of maternity leave, increasing it from around three to six or seven weeks for the typical new mother – with particularly large growth for less advantaged groups. We also provide suggestive evidence that PFL increased the usual 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 by a similar amount.
        KW  - paid leave
KW  - leave-taking
KW  - maternity leave
KW  - parental leave
KW  - maternal employment
        ER  -