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Evaluating Maternity Leave Reforms When RD Fails — arXiv:2610.41881

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Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41881
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@misc{dcca5cc22fe523,
  title = {Evaluating Maternity Leave Reforms When RD Fails — arXiv:2610.41881},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41881},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_ca5cc22fe523; sha256 e247462c0aef5ee3d86a7fefe015c0787d9ac0d003d9dd677baa79c6f84e136c},
  year = {2026}
}

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This paper documents that expansions of UK maternity pay in the 2000s improved children's test scores while reducing maternal employment. Extending job protection alone generated similar employment effects but no detectable impact on children. None of these effects are recoverable with a conventional regression discontinuity (RD) design because eligibility is only imperfectly captured by the available data. We explain why existing corrections for measurement error in RD are not well suited and propose a simple imputation-based solution. The approach preserves RD's main advantages, nonparametric identification and transparency, and remains valid even when measurement error has economic content.

Tema degli esploratori: economia dei servizi IA (elenco arXiv econ.EM, nuovi lavori del giorno).
Categorie arXiv: Econometrics (econ.EM).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41881 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza: titolo e abstract sono metadati arXiv distribuiti in CC0 1.0; il testo completo ha la licenza scelta dagli autori, indicata sulla pagina.
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