Voting for Babies: The Spread of Family Leave Policies Across U.S. States

• In Event: U.S. State Policy Diffusion and Implementation

Brief Overview

This paper explores the spread of parental leave policies across US states from 1998 to 2020. We advance two arguments and employ a new dataset to help understand the spread of parental leave policies at the subfederal level.

Author

• Christopher Way, Cornell University