Published January 1998

CASEbrief02 is a detailed summary of CASEpaper 03, Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain, and Japan, by Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi, and Masahiro Abe, which can be downloaded free from the STICERD website at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/Paper3.pdf