This article reviews the evidence on the impacts of paid family and medical leave (PFML)
policies on workers' health, family well-being, and employer outcomes. While an extensive …

Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth
century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their …

We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small
firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find …

In this paper we estimate peer effects in parental leave (PL), analyzing whether mothers'
choices may be influenced by prior decisions made by their female colleagues. We identify …

To study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave (PFL) policy on employer
outcomes, we designed and fielded a survey of small firms in New York and a control state …

Abstract Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs are important
sources of social insurance, but there is considerable inequality in benefit take-up, and little …

We study how employers respond to worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-
related sickness leave. Using administrative data on nearly one million spells of leave in …

Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb
younger workers' career advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement …

This paper uses matched worker-vacancy data to study gender differences in hiring
outcomes of jobseekers in Austria. When registered at the public employment office …

In this paper we estimate peer effects in parental leaves (PLs), analyzing whether mothers'
choices may be influenced by prior decisions made by their female colleagues. We identify …