Imagine you are the VP of HR, and your company currently has 3 months of paid leave for employees after the birth or adoption of a child. How would you change your implementation of paid leave based on the paper by Bailey et al. (2019)?

 

"The answer is not, 'Don't pass paid leave policies,"" Ms. Bailey said. "I think the answer has to be that we think smarter about how to design those policies, that also encourage fathers to take leave." New York Times, November 11, 2019 Paid leave policies, Bailey said, are "subsidizing something that women have always done a lot more of ... and are tending to increase that gender division rather than narrow it." "We need to think very carefully how we implement paid leave policies so that they don't have these consequences," she added. Washington Post, October 26, 2019