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 …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply,
less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects …

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 …

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence
in schooling, employment and earnings, marriage delay, and the accompanying decline in …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central
objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of …

Switzerland mandated a 14-week paid maternity leave in 2005 when many firms already
offered a similar benefit. While the mandate had only small and temporary effects on labor …

We study the extent to which delaying pregnancy mitigates the impact of children on
women's careers. We leverage quasi-random variation in the timing of pregnancy in a …

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 …

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 …

Whereas previous research has described motherhood penalties in US survey data, we
leverage administrative data on 811,000 quarterly earnings histories from the US …