The Impact of Paid Leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance in Rhode Island
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NBER Disability Research Center Paper No. NB 16-11
Issued in July 2017
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This research was supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) through grant #1 DRC12000002-05 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as part of the SSA Disability Research Consortium. The findings and conclusions are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of the SSA, an agency of the Federal Government or the NBER. We thank the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab, the Rhode Island Departments of Health, Human Services, Education and Labor and Training and the Office of the Governor for making this project possible. We thank seminar participants at Brown University and Stanford University for helpful comments. We thank the Center for Equitable Growth, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation for additional financial support. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s) alone and should not be construed as representing the opinions of these Foundations.