$80,000
Employers and Paid Leave: Assessing the Interdependencies between State-level Mandates, Medical Leave, and Voluntary Provisions of Paid Leave
2020
Catherine Maclean is an associate professor of economics at Temple University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate at IZA.
She primarily works in the areas of well-being, mental health, alcohol and drug use, and tobacco product use, and the role of public policies, such as health and social insurance, access to healthcare, and taxation, in influencing these outcomes.
Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Maclean earned her Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and her M.A. and B.Sc. in economics from Dalhousie University.
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Authored by Catherine Maclean
Policy
Paid sick leave improves public health outcomes and supports U.S. workers at a relatively low cost to employers (opens in a new tab)
Blog JAN 12, 2022
By: Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Household Economic Security
Catherine Maclean’s Working Papers
Academic
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 12, 2022
By: Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Household Economic Security
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