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Lavy, Victor and Danzer, Natalia (2018) Paid parental leave and children's schooling outcomes. Economic Journal, 128 (608). pp. 81-117. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12493 ISSN 0013-0133.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12493
Abstract
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 24 months 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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory L Education > LA History of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational attainment -- Austria, Maternity leave -- Austria | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economic Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 5 February 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 128 | ||||||||
Number: | 608 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 81-117 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12493 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 March 2019 |
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