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10.1542/6390794478112Video AbstractPEDS-VA_2025-0742766390794478112BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. Biannual preventive dental visits are recommended to promote good oral health and identify problems, yet children in many families do not receive this care due to time-related barriers. Paid sick leave mandates have the potential to relieve parental time constraints and facilitate scheduling and attending pediatric dental visits; thus, we sought to evaluate the effects of state paid sick leave mandates on children’s receipt of preventive dental care.METHODS. Using 2016 to 2023 National Survey of Children’s Health data and a difference-in-differences approach, we compared trends in children’s receipt of preventive dental care in states that did and did not implement paid sick leave mandates.RESULTS. Pre-implementation of paid sick leave mandates, children residing in states that later implemented these policies were more likely to have received preventive dental care, to be non-Hispanic white, to have private health insurance, and to have parents with more than a high school education, relative to children residing in states that never implemented paid sick leave mandates. State paid sick leave mandates were associated with a 3.2% relative increase (95% CI: 0.2%, 6.2%) in rates of children receiving preventive dental care, controlling for time-varying demographic and policy characteristics, with state and year fixed effects.CONCLUSIONS. State-paid sick leave mandates may alleviate competing parental work and caregiving responsibilities and provide parents with additional time and flexibility to obtain dental care for their children.

The Development Economics (DEV) program was launched in 2012 and has 190 affiliated researchers. The success the program is enjoying today is in very large part thanks to Duncan Thomas, who led the…

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From: Essen Health Conference Subject: Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 Dear colleague, This is a friendly reminder that the submission deadline for the Essen Health Conference 2026 is in two weeks! We invite full paper submissions in the fields of health, education and labour economics. We are excited to announce an excellent line-up of keynote speakers: Melanie Wasserman (UCLA Anderson School of Management) and Stephanie von Hinke (University of Bristol) [...]

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Abstract In July 2005, the state of Missouri implemented a series of cuts to its Medicaid program. These cuts resulted in the elimination of the Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities progra...

Abstract. Using the National Compensation Survey from 2009 to 2022 and difference-in-differences methods, we find that state-level sick pay mandates are ef

More than 10,000 people walked, ran, and wheeled across the Confederation Bridge on Sunday for the 45th annual Terry Fox Run.