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creators_name: Bister, Lara
title: Maternity leave durations and the relevance of selection: A demographic approach to maternal health outcomes after maternity leave for first-time mothers in Germany
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full_text_status: public
abstract: The thesis assess the effect of different maternity leave durations on post-leave mothers' health performances. Administrative panel data from the German Pension Insurance on 4,237 first-time mothers is used. The results show that the probabilities of becoming sick increase with the duration of the maternity leave. When differentiating between characteristics of women, high-income- and poor-health- mothers
show higher probabilities of sickness increasing with the maternity leave length. Average- and reduced working hours-mothers show lower and more stable probabilities of sickness across the leave durations.
Also, sickness probabilities seem to increase over time for only long-leave mothers. A selection effect of maternity leave durations on mothers’ health outcomes can be concluded.
date: 2019
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Rutigliano, R
keywords_local: Administrative data
keywords_local: Demography
keywords_local: Germany
keywords_local: Mothers’ health
keywords_local: Maternity leave
keywords_local: Panel data
keywords_local: Discrete-time event history analysis
language_iso: en
titleorder: Maternity leave durations and the relevance of selection: A demographic approach to maternal health outcomes after maternity leave for first-time mothers in Germany
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date_issued: 2019-01-01
citation:   Bister, Lara  (2019) Maternity leave durations and the relevance of selection: A demographic approach to maternal health outcomes after maternity leave for first-time mothers in Germany.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/92/1/FINAL_Master_Thesis_Lara_Biste_1.pdf