| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13780 |
| DP13780 When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health | |
| Petra Persson; Maya Rossin-Slater | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-05 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers’ demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family life—the months immediately following childbirth—and identifies the impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period in a regression discontinuity difference-in-differences (RD-DD) design. We find that increasing the father’s temporal flexibility reduces the risk of the mother experiencing physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from a lack of workplace flexibility—not only directly through greater career costs of family formation, as previously documented—but also indirectly, as fathers’ inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of childbearing. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Workplace flexibility Intra-household spillovers Maternal postpartum health Paternity leave |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13780 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542648 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Petra Persson,Maya Rossin-Slater. DP13780 When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health. 2019. |
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