Paid Parental Leave Laws in the United States: Does Short-Duration Leave Affect Women’s Labor-Force Attachment?

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2016-05-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.P20161118PMID 29547245PMCID PMC6375085
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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