RIEB Seminar
| Date&Time | Monday, December 19, 2011, 3:30pm- |
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| Place | Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculty, Graduate Students, and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | Japanese |
| Note | Copies of the paper will be available at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration. |
3:30pm-
| Speaker | Mayu FUJII |
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| Affiliation | Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University |
| Topic | When to start working after giving birth? Impact on infant health |
| Abstract | This paper seeks to determine whether the timing of a mother's return to work within a year after childbirth affects the infant's health in the US. To address the potential problem that maternal time at home after childbirth might be endogenous to the health of an infant, this study exploits exogenous variations in the enactment of US maternity-leave laws and labor market conditions across states over time as instrumental variables. Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the Children of the NLSY79, we show results suggesting that a mother's staying at home for at least 6 weeks after childbirth may enhance the infant's health during the first year of his/her life. |