Venue: The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1 Towerview Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0120
Venue: The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1 Towerview Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0120
The goal of this session is to explore several policy-relevant topics related to maternal employment and maternal and infant health. The first paper examines factors that are associated with preterm birth using a unique data set that links Vital Statistics birth records from Georgia with three sets of state administrative records and the Public Use Microsample of the Census (PUMS). The second paper describes trends in parents' employment and leave-taking in the months immediately following childbirth and analyzes the extent to which these behaviors are affected by parental leave policies using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The third paper studies the association between employment, maternity leave length, and health outcomes among infants and new mothers using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
| Title | Presenter | Discussant |
|---|---|---|
| Race, Age, and the Rising Incidence of Preterm Births |
M. Melinda Pitts (Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta) | Jeff DeSimone (University of Texas at Arlington) |
| Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking |
Christopher Ruhm (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) | Ted Joyce (City University, New York) |
| Maternal Employment and Maternal and Child Health |
Pinka Chatterji (University at Albany) | Kosali Simon (Cornell University) |