THE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY CHANGES WITHIN THE UNIFORMED MILITARY SERVICES
dc.contributor.advisor | Bacolod, Marigee | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Heissel, Jennifer A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Laurita, Laura | |
dc.contributor.author | Molloy, Matthew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-15T19:37:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-15T19:37:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/62267 | |
dc.description.abstract | The United States has no federal mandates for paid family leave (PFL), an unusual standing among the world’s developed countries. Recent Department of Defense (DoD) policy initiatives have expanded paid maternity and family leave to offer more support to new mothers and other caregivers. The DoD’s increase in maternity leave is a unique policy change for a large and diverse organization. Family leave policies are established as an incentive for attracting and retaining talent. Military leadership emphasized the need to retain the talent and value of female service members as motivation for recent paid maternity leave expansion. Few papers have examined how large-scale programs such as PFL affect parental behavior across demographics in the United States. With a better understanding of the effects from PFL policy changes, the military can employ policy aimed at retaining service members. Our paper examines recent changes to DoD parental leave policy for active duty service members. In 2015, the Department of the Navy tripled paid maternity leave from 6 to 18 weeks. In 2016, the DoD standardized paid maternity leave, reducing Navy and Marine Corps policy from 18 to 12 weeks of maternity leave and expanding Army and Air Force policy from 6 to 12 weeks of maternity leave. Our study uses difference-in-difference and regression discontinuity design methods to examine the impact of these policy changes on retention, birth and pregnancy outcomes, and parental leave taken. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/theeffectsofpare1094562267 | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.title | THE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY CHANGES WITHIN THE UNIFORMED MILITARY SERVICES | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Business and Public Policy (GSBPP) | |
dc.contributor.department | Business and Public Policy (GSBPP) | |
dc.subject.author | personnel | en_US |
dc.subject.author | manpower policy | en_US |
dc.subject.author | retention | en_US |
dc.subject.author | separation | en_US |
dc.subject.author | manpower policy issues | en_US |
dc.subject.author | special studies | en_US |
dc.subject.author | quality of life | en_US |
dc.subject.author | QOL | en_US |
dc.subject.author | maternity | en_US |
dc.subject.author | paternity | en_US |
dc.subject.author | parental leave | en_US |
dc.subject.author | female studies | en_US |
dc.subject.author | birth | en_US |
dc.subject.author | pregnancy | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Department of Defense | en_US |
dc.subject.author | military | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Navy | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Marine Corps | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Army | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Air Force | en_US |
dc.description.service | Captain, United States Marine Corps | en_US |
dc.description.service | Lieutenant, United States Navy | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science in Management | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science in Management | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Management (Manpower Systems Analysis) | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Management (Manpower Systems Analysis) | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.grantor | Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.identifier.thesisid | 31934 | |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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