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Are extensions in paid parental leave associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in Latin American cities? Evidence from 148 cities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia (2000–2015)
Originally published 2025-03-17 · Social science & medicine (1982)
Elsevier BV · DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117971 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Compares parental-leave reforms across three Latin American countries, helping organizations distinguish a plausible family-health commitment from evidence that varies by policy and setting.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
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What evidence supports the family-health promise behind paid leave?
Compares parental-leave reforms across three Latin American countries, helping organizations distinguish a plausible family-health commitment from evidence that varies by policy and setting.
Study context
Longitudinal city-level data from 148 cities in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, 2000–2015.
Age / stage: Infant and neonatal mortality; population-level data.
Read with three questions
- What changed in maternity and paternity leave in each country?
- How did mortality trends in Chile differ from the null associations in Colombia and Mexico?
- Why cannot a city-level trend be translated into an individual employee’s health prediction?
Keep the limits in view
Ecological interrupted time series may be affected by other contemporaneous changes; country-specific findings do not identify a universal leave duration or individual causal effect.
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Asiya Validova; Jessica Uruchima; Goro Yamada; Alejandra Vives; Alina Schnake-Mahl; Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche; Ariela Braverman; Brisa Sanchez; Hugo-Alejandro Santa-Ramírez; Laura Baldovino Chiquillo; Marcio Alazraqui; Monica Mazariegos; Mónica Serena Perner; Olga Lucia Sarmiento; Tamara Doberti; Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez; Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa; Ana V Diez Roux; Ana Ortigoza (2025). Are extensions in paid parental leave associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in Latin American cities? Evidence from 148 cities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia (2000–2015) Social science & medicine (1982). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117971
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