Carneiro, Pedro; Loken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. The...