Session 1: Children
Abstract
It has been hypothesized that parental leave policies benefit parents’ mental health. I will present recent evidence on the optimal duration of leave, which subgroups might benefit most, and future research directions.
Emilie Courtin
Emilie Courtin is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is Deputy Director of LSE Health and leads the LSE Health Inequalities Lab. Her research combines social epidemiology and social policy to assess how non-medical policies influence health, disease, and health care utilization. Emilie holds a PhD from the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. She was previously a David E. Bell Fellow at Harvard University and an MRC Skills Development Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
