TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Tominey, Emma
        TI  - Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock
        PY  - 2013/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7462
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7462
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - maternity leave
KW  - female labor supply
KW  - insurance
        ER  -