Paid Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor
• 署名单位: Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Warwick; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12493
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 81-117
• 关键词: early maternal employment; cognitive-development; Educational outcomes; HEALTH; care; mothers; benefits; IMPACT; CONSEQUENCES; achievement

摘要

This article investigates whether schooling outcomes at age 15 are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. the time mothers spend at home with their new-born before returning to work. We exploit an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected parental leave from 12 to 24months for births as of 1 July, 1990. Using PISA data from the cohorts 1990 and 1987, we find no significant overall impact of the parental leave extension on standardised test scores. However, subgroup analyses reveal strong heterogeneity by maternal education and child gender.