Hello,
I am researching the effect of an increase in the maternity leave duration on wages of mothers using panel data. I initially thought of using mothers of infants ( below the age of 1) as my treatment group as they are the women who are directly affected by the extension and as my control group mothers of children over the age of 5 which are unlikely to become pregnant.
However I have noticed that due to the panel structure of my data which runs from 1991 to 2009, the infants at some point grow and become 5 years old. Therefore there are some women that are both in my treatment and control group. This makes me think that my research design is problematic. Could somebody please advise on what I could do to correct this?
I am researching the effect of an increase in the maternity leave duration on wages of mothers using panel data. I initially thought of using mothers of infants ( below the age of 1) as my treatment group as they are the women who are directly affected by the extension and as my control group mothers of children over the age of 5 which are unlikely to become pregnant.
However I have noticed that due to the panel structure of my data which runs from 1991 to 2009, the infants at some point grow and become 5 years old. Therefore there are some women that are both in my treatment and control group. This makes me think that my research design is problematic. Could somebody please advise on what I could do to correct this?
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