January 2024

Columbia University Center on Poverty & Social Policy: The Benefits and Costs of Expanding Paid Parental Leave in New York State

Contributors: Columbia University Center on Poverty & Social Policy

Issues Areas: Child care

This Robin Hood-funded report from the Columbia University Center on Poverty & Social Policy summarizes and extends results from literature on the benefits of paid parental leave, providing aggregate estimates of the benefits and costs of income support to mothers while bonding with a newborn in order to estimate the benefits and costs of a proposed expansion to New York’s paid family leave program.