Evaluating the Effect of San Francisco's Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on Birth Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Since 2017, San Francisco's Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (PPLO) has allowed parents who work for private-sector employers to take 6 weeks of fully paid postnatal parental leave. Previous studies have linked paid parental leave with health improvements for birthing people and babies, although evidence for birth outcomes is limited. We hypothesized that the PPLO may have improved birth outcomes via reduced stress during pregnancy due to anticipation of increased financial security and postnatal leave. We used linked California birth certificate and hospital discharge records from January 2013 to December 2018 (n = 1,420,781). We used quasi-experimental difference-in-difference (DD) models to compare outcomes among SF births before and after PPLO to outcomes among births in control co

SUBMITTER: Karasek D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9565022 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature