Maternity leave and children's health outcomes in the long-term

Fabel, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102431

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“…In general, it can be said that increasing paid maternity leave in MENA countries led to a decrease in infant and under 5 mortality. This result was in line with Khan for OECD countries ( 1 ), Fabel for Germany ( 9 ), Khanam, et al for Australia ( 10 ), Bullinger ( 12 ), and Rossin for the United States ( 11 , 14 ). Fabel examined the increase in maternity leave from 2 to 6 months on children's health in Germany and stated that the change in the law had a positive effect on children's health in the long run ( 9 ).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Maximizing utility with the above constraints, the child health function will be described as Η(Β,Μ,L,V) where B is the other factor affecting the child's health. According to the above function as well as the studies of Khanam et al ( 10 ), Khan ( 1 ), and Fabel ( 9 ), the following functions were selected to evaluate the duration of maternity leave on the health of infants and children.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One group examined the effect of approving maternity leave with pay and the other group examined the duration of maternity leave on children's health. Recent studies by Fabel in Germany have shown that children born after increasing maternity leave are less likely to be hospitalized and less likely to experience mental and behavioral disorders ( 9 ). Ahammer et al showed that maternity leave of 6 to 8 weeks did not affect outpatient costs and sick days in Austria ( 4 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Paid Maternity Leave on Child Health in the Middle East and North Africa

Shahraki

2022

Med. J. Islam. Republ. Iran

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Background: The paid maternity leave is one of the factors affecting the health status of children, but this maternity leave in the Middle East and North Africa is not only less than in developed countries but also the mortality rate of children under 5 years is higher in these countries. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the paid maternity leave on children’s health in the Middle East and North Africa. Methods: This descriptive-analytical and applied study was conducted by Panel data regression method with cross-sectional dependence and Common Correlated Effect Mean Group (CCEMG) and Augmented Mean Group (AMG) estimators for 2000 and 2019. The statistical population was 12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and annual time series data were extracted from World Bank databases. The study models, cross-sectional dependency tests, Pesaran unit root, Westerlund cointegration, and other required tests were estimated in Stata 16 software. Results: The average paid maternity leave for 12 countries in the Middle East and North African countries between 2000 and 2019 was 68.8 days, and in 2019, it was 78 days. The effect of maternity leave on infant mortality rate in the Augmented Mean Group and Common Correlated Effect Mean Group were -0.0018 and -0.0006, respectively, and, the effect on the under-5 mortality rate in the mentioned methods was -0.0023 and -0.0007, respectively. The coefficient of female labor force participation rate on infant mortality rate was -0.056 and the under-5 mortality rate was -0.049. Conclusion: Increasing maternity leave had a negative effect on infant and child mortality rates. Also, health expenditures and female labor force participation rates had a negative effect, and carbon dioxide production had a positive effect on infant mortality rates; therefore, policies to increase paid maternity leave for mothers, as well as policies to increase maternal employment, are proposed to increase fertility while increasing the health of infants.

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The Effect of Paid Maternity Leave on Child Health in the Middle East and North Africa

Shahraki

2022

Med. J. Islam. Republ. Iran

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“…Recent economic studies evaluate the impact of parental leave on children's development by looking at educational, health, or socio-emotional dimensions (e.g., Ruhm, 2000;Berger et al, 2005;Rasmussen, 2010;Baker and Milligan, 2008;Carneiro et al, 2011;Dustmann and Schönberg, 2011;Danzer and Lavy, 2017;Huebener et al, 2018;Bullinger, 2019;Albagli and Rau, 2019;Ginja et al, 2020;Fabel 2021). However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study looking at short-or long-term impacts of parental leave reforms on children's well-being to measure potential welfare gains.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Common methodological challenges of previous parental leave studies are both the potential selection of women and mothers into the labor market as well as the lack of a distinct counterfactual scenario to maternal care. For example, when studying parental leave reforms in West Germany and Austria (e.g., Dustmann and Schönberg, 2011;Danzer and Lavy, 2017;Huebener et al, 2018;Fabel 2021), only a quite limited number of women and mothers were employed before any parental leave reform was implemented. This implies that the care situation changed only for a small selective group of children.…”

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confidence: 99%