Maternity leave and children’s cognitive and behavioral development

By Michael Baker, Kevin S. Milligan. Journal of Population Economics, 2014

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Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, unknown): “In contrast, Baker and Milligan (2015), Danzer and Lavy (2016), and Dahl et al. (2016) study expansions of paid leave from 25 weeks to 50 weeks, 12 months to 24 months, and 18 weeks to 35 weeks, respectively.”
• Maternity and Family Leave Policy (2017, unknown): “For instance, in Canada, an extension of paid maternity leave from six to twelve months increased maternal time at home and breastfeeding rates, but had no impacts on indicators of children’s cognitive or behavioral development in early childhood (Baker and Milligan, 2008b, 2010, 2015).”
• Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development (2014, background): “Exploiting parental leave expansions, most studies do not find any significant effect on children’s long-run development (Baker and Milligan 2011; Dustmann and Schöenberg 2012; Liu and Oskar 2010; Rasmussen 2010).”
• Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas (2019, unknown): “A. Data on Parents’ Time Use To analyze the longer-run effects of QPIP on the division of household labor, I use time diary data from Canada’s GSS.”