The article examined potential progress in the area of paid maternity leave in Georgia, which does not mandate the practice. Bullinger has studied the impact of California's paid family leave law, which could serve as a model for Georgia and other states.
]]>Lindsey Bullinger, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, studied data from California, which enacted the country’s first paid family leave law nearly two decades ago. She said the program has led to an “improvement in overall child health” for infants, including a reduction in asthma rates.
“We know that kids who are healthier at birth and in early infanthood are healthier, they have higher education attainment, they’re more likely to be employed and more likely to pay taxes when they’re adults because they’re employed,” she said.