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I study the effect of paid sick leave mandates on long term care facilities and their residents. I find that paid sick leave mandates lead to increases in part time staffing of nursing assistants, improvements in resident health and safety, and a reduction in elderly mortality rate ( preventing on average 4000 deaths per year).

This paper looks at the impact of parent’s divorce on the gender gap in childrens long term labor market outcomes. I find that boys whose parents are divorced are less likely to graduate high school and attend college compared to their sisters.