Assumptions about the importance of mothers’ time for children’s healthy development permeate policy debates over child care, maternal employment, and family leave. Studies consistently show that mothers’ time in particular activities with children relate positively to indicators of child well-being, but results are more mixed regarding associations between child outcomes and the sheer amount o...

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999 to 2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program doubled the overall use of maternity leave, inc...

it is my great honor announcing the promotion of the archives of bone and joint surgery (abjs) to the level of being available on the pubmed central site. being precise, one year ago in september 2013, we published the first issue of the abjs. diligently thereafter, we published four subsequent issues with the fifth being in front of you. we set this as our first goal to reach visibility on pub...