%0 Report
        %A Puhani, Patrick A.
%A Sonderhof, Katja
        %T The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3820
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3820
        %X Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control groups of older women and older women together with young and older men. We find that maternity leave extension negatively affects job-related training for young women, even if they do not have children, especially when the focus is on employer-arranged training. There is tentative evidence that young women partly compensated for this reduction in employer-arranged training by increasing training on their own initiative.
        %K education
%K evaluation
%K policy