@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7462,
            	author={Tominey, Emma},
            	title={Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock},
            	year={2013},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={7462},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7462},
	abstract={Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to maternity employment protection. We exploit time-state variation in the implementation of unpaid maternity leave through the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the US which increased employment protection from 0 to 12 weeks. We find that mothers eligible for FMLA speed up their return to work in response to a paternal shock, with a conditional probability of being in work 53% higher than in households with no paternal shock. In contrast, there was a negligible insurance response for mothers with no employment protection.},
	keywords={maternity leave;female labor supply;insurance},
            }