Paid family leave and parental investments in infant health: Evidence from California.
Breastfeeding
Child health
Immunizations
Maternity leave
Paid family leave
Parental investments
Vaccines
Journal
Economics and human biology
ISSN: 1873-6130
Titre abrégé: Econ Hum Biol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101166135
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
10
10
2022
revised:
28
07
2023
accepted:
26
09
2023
medline:
28
11
2023
pubmed:
10
10
2023
entrez:
9
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding and immunizations- two critical parental investments in infant health - which we identify using California's 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55% wage replacement rate. We employ difference-in-difference and difference-in-difference-in-differences models for a large, representative sample of children (N = 314,532) born between 2000 and 2013 drawn from the restricted-use versions of the 2003-2014 National Immunization Surveys. Our most conservative estimates indicate that access to PFL is associated with at least a 15% increase in breastfeeding exclusively for at least six months. We find substantially large effects for disadvantaged mothers, adding to the existing evidence that access to state-sanctioned paid family leave might benefit children overall and disadvantaged children in particular.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37812832
pii: S1570-677X(23)00089-8
doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101308
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101308Informations de copyright
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