当父亲可以留在家中：父亲的工作场所灵活性与母亲健康
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 2024 · [{"name": "Petra Persson", "affiliation": ["Research Institute of Industrial Economics", "Stanford University"]}, {"name": "Maya Rossin‐Slater", "affiliation": ["Stanford University"]}]
中文摘要
我们研究父亲获得工作场所灵活性如何影响母亲的产后健康。我们利用瑞典一项改革带来的变异，该改革赋予新晋父亲在产后期间更灵活地休间歇性育儿假的权利，并表明提高父亲的时间灵活性——从而增强其与母亲同时在家陪伴的能力——降低了母亲产后健康并发症的发生率。我们的结果表明，母亲承担了男性缺乏工作场所灵活性所带来的部分负担，因为父亲无法应对家庭冲击会加重生育对母亲健康造成的成本。
Abstract
We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and show that increasing the father's temporal flexibility-and thereby his ability to be present at home together with the mother-reduces the incidence of maternal postpartum health complications. Our results suggest that mothers bear part of the burden from a lack of workplace flexibility for men because a father's inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health cost of childbearing.