Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California /
Pac, Jessica E.
Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California / Jessica E. Pac, Ann P. Bartel, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w25784 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25784. .
April 2019.
This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55 percent wage replacement rate. We employ synthetic control models for a large, representative sample of over 270,000 children born between 2000 and 2012 drawn from the restricted-use versions of the 2003 - 2014 National Immunization Surveys. Our estimates indicate that PFL increases the overall duration of breastfeeding by nearly 18 days, and the likelihood of breastfeeding for at least six months by 5 percentage points. We find substantially larger effects of PFL on breastfeeding duration for some disadvantaged mothers.
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Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California / Jessica E. Pac, Ann P. Bartel, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w25784 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25784. .
April 2019.
This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55 percent wage replacement rate. We employ synthetic control models for a large, representative sample of over 270,000 children born between 2000 and 2012 drawn from the restricted-use versions of the 2003 - 2014 National Immunization Surveys. Our estimates indicate that PFL increases the overall duration of breastfeeding by nearly 18 days, and the likelihood of breastfeeding for at least six months by 5 percentage points. We find substantially larger effects of PFL on breastfeeding duration for some disadvantaged mothers.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.