%0 Report
        %A Carneiro, Pedro
%A Loken, Katrine Vellesen
%A Salvanes, Kjell G.
        %T A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5362
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5362
        %X We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. The increased time with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave.
        %K maternity leave
%K time with mother
%K adult outcomes