{"id":1811,"date":"2018-09-18T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=1811"},"modified":"2018-09-19T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:23:44","slug":"aktar-leave-tal-maternita-ifisser-rizultati-ahjar-fl-ezamijiet-ghal-uhud-mit-tfal","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/aktar-leave-tal-maternita-ifisser-rizultati-ahjar-fl-ezamijiet-ghal-uhud-mit-tfal\/","title":{"rendered":"Longer maternity leave leads to better exam results for some children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Longer paid maternity and paternity leave\u00a0offers parents an opportunity to spend more time with their babies. According to new research, children\u2019s educational benefits vary greatly depending on how they were raised and the qualifications or educational background of their parents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Research shows that the children of highly educated parents and\u00a0middle class\u00a0parents benefit from better exam results if the parents take extended paid parental leave following the birth of their children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0academics from the universities of Warwick and Munich, the effect was predominantly significant in boys. Their research has provided the first concrete results on how parental leave can affect child development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The study\u00a0also\u00a0found that\u00a0in the case of parents who had left school after they had completed obligatory\u00a0schooling,\u00a0longer maternity leave was associated with low scores in exams taken by their adolescent children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers from Warwick and from the\u00a0Ifo\u00a0Institute in Munich\u00a0did not find\u00a0any significant effect on the exam results of older children when parental leave was extended from one year to two. However, when they scrutinised the\u00a0results\u00a0in more detail, they were surprised to find a highly significant difference based on the parents\u2019 level of education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The research carried out by\u00a0Natalia Danzer,\u00a0Deputy Director of\u00a0Ifo\u00a0and\u00a0Prof. Victor Lavy\u00a0from the University of\u00a0Warwick \u2013\u00a0published in the\u00a0Royal Economic Society<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0was based on information gathered after Austria extended paid maternity leave from one year to two for children born after June 1990. Although the information was gathered in Austria, similar income and education levels among the country\u2019s population meant that the results could be applied to other developed countries in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The negative impact\u00a0that was identified among children of parents with a lower level of education may be due to less time and fewer resources, most likely because the gaps between children in such families are shorter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The authors said that the research was\u00a0most relevant to countries which lacked formal day care centres for children under two years of age.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous research\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/i>published in the\u00a0<\/i>Journal of Economics<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>which\u00a0addressed the impact of the job market on mothers\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>–<\/i>\u00a0found that the doubling of paid parental leave had no impact on medium to long-term employment or the financial income of mothers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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