TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carneiro, Pedro
AU  - Loken, Katrine Vellesen
AU  - Salvanes, Kjell G.
        TI  - A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
        PY  - 2010/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5362
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5362
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - maternity leave
KW  - time with mother
KW  - adult outcomes
        ER  -