Ann Bartel

Racial and ethnic disparities in access to and use of paid family and medical leave: evidence from four nationally representative datasets

Monthly labor review · 2019-01-22 · 103 citations

The Impacts of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Worker Health, Family Well-Being, and Employer Outcomes

Annual Review of Public Health · 2022 · 51 citations

This article reviews the evidence on the impacts of paid family and medical leave (PFML) policies on workers' health, family well-being, and employer outcomes. While an extensive body of research demonstrates the mostly beneficial effects of PFML taken by new parents on infant, child, and parental health, less is known about its impact on employees who need leave to care for older children, adult family members, or elderly relatives. The evidence on employers is similarly limited but indicates t…

California's paid family leave law improves maternal psychological health

Social Science & Medicine · 2020 · 50 citations

Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California

National Bureau of Economic Research · 2019-04-01 · 37 citations

This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55 percent wage replacement rate. We employ synthetic control models for a large, representative sample of over 270,000 children born between 2000 and 2012 drawn from the restricted-use versions of the 2003 -2014 National Immunization Surveys. Our estimates indicate that PFL increases the overall durati…

Should Hospitals Keep Their Patients Longer? The Role of Inpatient Care in Reducing Post-Discharge Mortality

National Bureau of Economic Research · 2014-09-01 · 28 citations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum have endorsed 30-day mortality rates as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality rates are reasonable measures of hospital quality as they consider the frequency of an event that occurs after a patient is discharged and no longer under the watch and care of the hospital. Using a large dataset comprised of all hospital encounters of every Me…