Chart of the Day: Length of maternity leave as a signal of productivity
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Today’s Chart of the Day comes from Linh Tô’s paper “The Signaling Role of Parental Leave”. She builds a model where women use the length of leave they take after childbirth as a signal of future productivity to employers. Those that are more productive on average signal that by coming back to work sooner. From this model, she has several predictions of how leave length and earnings will change after a parental leave reform changes the length of maximum paid leave.
Chart of the Day: Length of maternity leave as a signal of productivity
Chart of the Day: Length of maternity leave…
Chart of the Day: Length of maternity leave as a signal of productivity
Today’s Chart of the Day comes from Linh Tô’s paper “The Signaling Role of Parental Leave”. She builds a model where women use the length of leave they take after childbirth as a signal of future productivity to employers. Those that are more productive on average signal that by coming back to work sooner. From this model, she has several predictions of how leave length and earnings will change after a parental leave reform changes the length of maximum paid leave.