The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes

Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. We evaluate a maternity leave extension in Austria which increased mandatory prenatal leave from 6 to 8 weeks. We exploit that the assignment to the extended leave was determined by a cutoff...

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Volume:	70
Main Author:	Ahammer, Alexander Halla, Martin Schneeweis, Nicole
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.03.2020 ELSEVIER
published in:	Journal of health economics Vol. 70; p. 102250
ORCID:	0000-0001-9280-4791 0000-0003-4450-1985
Data of publication:	March 2020
ISSN:	0167-6296 1879-1646
EISSN:	1879-1646
Discipline:	Public Health Economics
Subjects:	Birth outcomes Fertility Fetal origins hypothesis Infant health Maternity leave Birth weight Long-term child outcomes Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Care Sciences & Services Business & Economics Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Health administration Birth outcomes J83 Fetal origins hypothesis Infant health Maternity leave I13 J88 J13 Long-term child outcomes I18 J28 Fertility Birth weight FETAL-GROWTH BIRTH-WEIGHT CARE PREGNANCY WORK GROWTH RESTRICTION STRESS BENEFITS EXPOSURE
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2020 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2020 Web of Science PubMed CrossRef MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS