Length of maternity leave and health of mother and child – a review

Staehelin, Katharina; Bertea, Paola Coda; Stutz, Elisabeth Zemp

doi:10.1007/s00038-007-5122-1

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“…With regard to breastfeeding, Sweden and Norway are also unique among the wealthier countries of europe. The length of the breastfeeding period is closely linked to the quality of parental insurance available in the country in question; with a generous parental insurance scheme conditions are more conducive to breastfeeding [82].…”

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Children's health: Health in Sweden: The National Public Health Report 2012. Chapter 2

Hjern

2012

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

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The percentage of girls in the 9 th grade who reported feeling increasingly stressed by schoolwork rose from 50 to nearly 70 per cent in the years between 1997-1998 and 2005-2006.). However, the proportion of children who experienced such problems decreased in 2009/2010. Pupils in the 5 th grade view the lack of peace and quiet in school classrooms as a significant problem. The proportion of children who report that they are bullied in school at least once a week has stood at approximately 3-4 per cent since the 1980s, despite greater efforts to curb bullying in schools. Today's children eat less candy and drink fewer soft drinks than a decade ago. They also eat more fruit and vegetables. The percentage of overweight children has, however, doubled; in the last two decades their number has risen by a factor of four or five. In the most recent years, however, reports have suggested that the rise in the percentage of overweight children has halted, and may have even begun to decline.

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Children's health: Health in Sweden: The National Public Health Report 2012. Chapter 2

Hjern

2012

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

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“…However, they are largely correlational studies using very narrow samples and results are mixed. See for example Gjerdingen et al (1993), Hyde et al (1995), Saurel-Cubizolles et al (2000), Dagher et al (2014), and Avendano et al (2015) as well as Staehelin et al (2007) and Aitken et al (2015) for reviews of the literature. Chatterji and Markowitz (2005) examine how maternity leave length affects maternal health in the United States using a sample of women who returned to work within 6 months after giving birth in 1988.…”

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The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health.

Bütikofer

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Skira³

2018

SSRN Journal

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We examine the impact of the introduction of paid maternity leave in Norway in 1977 on maternal health. Before the policy reform, mothers were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Mothers giving birth after July 1, 1977 were entitled to 4 months of paid leave and 12 months of unpaid leave. We combine Norwegian administrative data with survey data on the health of women around age 40 and estimate the mediumand long-term impacts of the reform using regression discontinuity and difference-inregression discontinuity designs. Our results suggest paid maternity leave benefits are protective of maternal health. The reform improved a range of maternal health outcomes, including BMI, blood pressure, pain, and mental health, and it increased health-promoting behaviors, such as exercise and not smoking. The effects were larger for first-time and low-resource mothers and women who would have taken little unpaid leave in the absence of the reform. We also study the maternal health effects of subsequent expansions in paid maternity leave and find evidence of diminishing returns to leave length.

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“…A number of factors have been found to determine the initiation of breastfeeding: cultural or societal influences, such as breastfeeding being an accepted norm or not (Staehelin et al 2007), and institutional or regulatory factors, i.e. hospital assistance, workplace support and parental leave policy, which influence if, how and for how long a child is breastfed (Galtry 2003).…”

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Maternity leave policies: Trade-offs between labour market demands and health benefits for children

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Broeks²

2016

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Length of maternity leave and health of mother and child – a review

Cited by 104 publications

References 17 publications

Children's health: Health in Sweden: The National Public Health Report 2012. Chapter 2

Children's health: Health in Sweden: The National Public Health Report 2012. Chapter 2

The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health.

Maternity leave policies: Trade-offs between labour market demands and health benefits for children

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