Does paid family leave save infant lives? Evidence from California's paid family leave program

IF 1.7 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI:10.1111/coep.12589

Feng Chen

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Abstract

Paid family leave (PFL) aims to help working parents balance their careers and family responsibilities while also improving the well-being of infants. Using linked U.S. birth and infant death data with a difference-in-differences framework, I find that a 6-week PFL in California reduced the post-neonatal mortality rate by 0.135- that is, it saved approximately 339 infant lives. There were fewer deaths from health-related causes and larger effects for infants with married mothers and for infant boys. Additional checks and placebo examinations indicate that the observed effect is not due to contemporaneous shocks but rather is causal.

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带薪探亲假能挽救婴儿的生命吗?来自加州带薪家庭假计划的证据

带薪家庭假(PFL)旨在帮助在职父母平衡他们的事业和家庭责任，同时改善婴儿的福祉。通过使用“差异中的差异”框架的美国出生和婴儿死亡数据，我发现加州为期6周的PFL将新生儿后期死亡率降低了0.135——也就是说，它挽救了大约339名婴儿的生命。与健康有关的原因导致的死亡较少，对已婚母亲和男婴的影响更大。额外的检查和安慰剂检查表明，观察到的效果不是由于同时的冲击，而是因果关系。

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