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Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California / Jessica E. Pac, Ann P. Bartel, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pac, Jessica E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25784.
- NBER working paper series no. w25784
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2019.
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