… ’s first to their second birthday on long-term child outcomes. Exploiting … leave, we find that
longer parental leave improves on average child health outcomes, but has no effect on the child…

… their unborn children. We evaluate a maternity leave extension in Austria which increased
mandatory prenatal leave from 6 to 8 weeks. We exploit that the assignment to the extended …

… of formal childcare and of maternity leave on child development … long-term effects of maternity
leave schemes and childcare … the long-term education and labor market effects on children …

… long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only
limited evidence that expansions of parental leave … these policies on child outcomes. Section 3 …

… a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings… 2007 parental leave reform
on mothers’ earnings - an outcome … can increase fathers’ involvement in childcare and has the …

… expansion in Austria had a positive effect on children in regions where there was no
formal childcare. In other words, there were only positive effects of the reform in cases when …

… novel evidence of parental leave policy effects on medium-run outcomes of children using
… within the first year after childbirth, they find no impact on children’s long-term outcomes. …

… to show that longer parental care, as opposed to formal daycare, has long term positive effects
on … of parental leave duration on child outcomes, we exploit a major Danish parental leave …

… of paid parental leave on health outcomes for children and parents… leave are more involved
in childcare both during the leave … impact on long-term incomes, paid parental leave can help …

… whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, …
, where the proportion of children aged 02 enrolled in childcare during the 1990s was much …