A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long-Run Outcomes of Children

By Pedro Carneiro, K. Løken, Kjell G. Salvanes. Journal of Political Economy, 2015

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We study a change in maternity leave entitlements in Norway. Mothers giving birth before July 1, 1977, were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after that date were entitled to 4 months of paid leave and 12 months of unpaid leave. The increased time spent with the child led to a 2 percentage point decline in high school dropout rates and a 5 percent increase in wages at age 30. These effects were larger for the children of mothers who, in the absence of the reform, would have taken very low levels of unpaid leave.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• What is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave? (2013, unknown): “At this point it is also interesting to think about the costs versus bene ts of the 1977 introduction of 18 weeks of paid leave in Norway, as analyzed in Carneiro et al. (2015). Using estimates from their paper, per $1,000 spent, dropout rates decline by 0.”
• The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior (2016, background): “Although related and sometimes combined in laws, sick pay schemes differ crucially from parental leave schemes (Gruber 1994; Ruhm 1998; Waldfogel 1998; Ruhm 2000; Rossin-Slater et al. 2013; Lalive et al. 2014; Carneiro et al. 2015; Thomas 2015; Dahl et al. 2016) due to the negative externalities ind”
• Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes (2016, unknown): “Published by John Wiley & Sons, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. et al., 2013; Carneiro et al., 2015; Dickson et al., 2016).”
• Maternity and Family Leave Policy (2017, unknown): “Carneiro et al. (2015) find that the implementation of the Norwegian policy led to a two percentage point decline in high school drop-out rates and a five percent increase in earnings at age 30, with impacts concentrated among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, evidence from the U.S.”
• Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development (2014, background): “The exception is Carneiro et al. (2011) who find improvements in children’s long-run educational outcomes following a parental leave expansion in Norway.”