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Drexel review links paid family leave to better maternal and infant outcomes; Connecticut program shows strong partner take-up
Summary
A Drexel University literature review discussed on the Connecticut Paid Leave podcast finds paid family leave is associated with higher birth weight, fewer premature births, reduced postpartum depression and longer breastfeeding; Connecticut’s program has seen 44% partner take-up and allows flexible timing of bonding leave.
Nancy Barrow, host of the Paid Leave Podcast, interviewed Natalie Schock, associate director of communications and administration at the Center for Hunger Free Communities, Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, about the Drexel literature review "Making the Case for Paid Family Leave." Schock told listeners the team conducted a multidisciplinary literature review of public-health and economic studies and supplemented that evidence with local lived-experience vignettes from Philadelphia.
The review, Schock said, finds paid leave is…
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