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Title: The Effects of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act on Female Labor Supply
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1. Mukhopadhyay, Sankar
The Effects of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act on Female Labor Supply
International Economic Review 53,4 (November 2012): 1133-1153.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2012.00714.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Labor Force Participation; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Marriage; Maternal Employment; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes

This article analyzes the effects of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) on the labor force participation rates of married women by estimating a dynamic model of labor force participation. Results show that the PDA increased the labor force participation rate of pregnant women by 8.2 percentage points, of women with a child less than one year old by 3.4 percentage points, and of women with older children by 1.5 percentage points. Counterfactual policy simulations show that the provision of unpaid leave will increase the labor force participation rate of women with older children by an additional 3.7 percentage points.
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Mukhopadhyay, Sankar. "The Effects of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act on Female Labor Supply." International Economic Review 53,4 (November 2012): 1133-1153.