Session 1: Children
Résumé
Parental leave policies have been hypothesized to 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 Associate Professor of Health Policy at 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 use. Emilie has a PhD from the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. She was previously a David E. Bell Fellow at Harvard University and MRC Skills Development Fellow at LSHTM.