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Longer maternity leave reduces school drop-out rate

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Summary of story from Freakonomics, search March 21, illness 2011

According to a new working paper, cialis children may be less likely to drop out of school if they spend more time with their mothers during the first months of life.

The study is based on statistics from Norway, following recent reforms there which lengthened maternity leave, paid and unpaid, by an average 4 months.

Authors Pedro Carneiro, Katrine V. Loken and Kjell G. Salvanes say the increase to maternity leave has led to a 2.7 per cent decline in high school drop-out rates.

In the case of mothers with lower education levels, rates declined by 5.2 per cent.

The study concludes that the impact is “especially large for children of mothers who prior to the reform would take very low levels of unpaid leave.”

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