Promoting Parental Leave for Immigrant Fathers—What Role Does Policy Play?

Does Islam play a role in anti-immigrant sentiment? An experimental approach.

Are Muslim immigrants subjected to targeted opposition (i.e., Islamophobia) on their pathway to US citizenship? Using a list experiment and a representative sample of the US population, we compare explicit and implicit opposition to Muslim and Christian immigrants. We find that Muslim immigrants, relative to Christian immigrants, experience greater explicit resistance. However, when social desi...

Parental leave and child health.

This study investigates whether rights to parental leave improve pediatric health. Aggregate data are used for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. More generous paid leave is found to reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially where a causal effect of leave is most plausible. In particular, there is a muc...

Parental leave policies and parents' employment and leave-taking.

We describe trends in maternal employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are influenced by parental leave policies. Data are from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplements, merged with other months of the CPS, and cover the period 1987 to 1994. This time span is one during which parental leave legislation expanded a...

Maternal Addiction: Does Attachment Play a Role?

Maternal addiction is a serious problem with long lasting consequences for children’s social, emotional and cognitive development. Mothers who abuse substances have higher rates of reported child abuse, neglect and foster care placement. There is evidence that drugs such as cocaine may affect infant development both directly, via in utero exposure, and indirectly via alterations in maternal car...

Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women’s Labor-Force Attachment?