abstract: 'Infant mortality is an important indicator of a nation''s overall health

  and well-being because of its association with education, availability

  and accessibility of health services, and income inequality. In this

  paper, we examine the effect of job-protected paid parental leave on

  infant and post-neonatal mortality rates in 19 OECD countries from 1960

  to 2012. We utilize a generalized least squares model controlling for a

  host of variables traditionally examined in studies of infant mortality

  rates, as well as year fixed effects, country fixed effects, and country

  time trends. We find a statistically significant association between

  job-protected paid parental leave and a reduction in both infant

  mortality rates and post-neonatal mortality rates. The findings are

  particularly relevant for policymakers in the United States, the only

  industrialized democracy in the world that does not provide

  job-protected paid parental leave to working women and men.'
affiliation: 'Patton, D (Corresponding Author), Univ Alabama, Polit Sci, Tuscaloosa,
  AL 35487 USA.

  Patton, Dana, Univ Alabama, Polit Sci, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA.

  Costich, Julia F., Kentucky Injury Prevent \& Res Ctr, Dept Hlth Serv Management,
  Lexington, KY USA.

  Costich, Julia F., Kentucky Injury Prevent \& Res Ctr, Lexington, KY USA.

  Lidstromer, Niklas, GlobeDoc GmbH, Zug, Switzerland.'
author: Patton, Dana and Costich, Julia F. and Lidstromer, Niklas
author-email: dana.patton@ua.edu
author_list:
- family: Patton
  given: Dana
- family: Costich
  given: Julia F.
- family: Lidstromer
  given: Niklas
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1002/wmh3.214
files: []
issn: 1948-4682
journal: WORLD MEDICAL \& HEALTH POLICY
keywords: paid parental leave; infant mortality rate; OECD countries
keywords-plus: 'CHILD HEALTH; MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; POPULATION HEALTH; PROGRAMS; MODELS;

  CARE'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '36'
orcid-numbers: Lidstromer, Niklas/0000-0003-2701-5029
pages: 6-23
papis_id: d81a5344358718cabe7a913c594a3965
ref: Patton2017paidparental
times-cited: '11'
title: 'Paid Parental Leave Policies and Infant Mortality Rates in OECD Countries:
  Policy Implications for the United States'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000400653800002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '10'
volume: '9'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2017'