Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters.

ABSTRACT: The link between policy design choices and health is an important, yet understudied area of public health research. I investigate the impact of the generosity, inclusion, and autonomy of state paid sick leave laws on influenza-like-illness (ILI) rates and its components using data from the Centers for Disease Control and state-level paid sick leave statutes. I found that paid sick leave policies that include small firms and that allow for a larger number of medical uses have lower ILI rates, relative to states with less comprehensive policies. States with policies that had more generous accrual rates and that included a wide variety of worker types (temporary, part-time, students) increased the total number of reported medical cases, relative to states with less comprehensive policies. Pol

SUBMITTER: Wething H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9607842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature