Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295779 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16756
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings roughly a decade after they gave birth.
Subjects: 
labor market
maternity leave
gender
leave taking
gender gap
regression discontinuity
JEL: 
J08
J16
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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