American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 10,
no. 4, October 2018
(pp. 283–307)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
We study how relationship stability of couples is affected by an increase in fathers' involvement in staying home from work with young children. We make use of a parental leave reform in Sweden that earmarked one month of paid leave to each parent in a regression discontinuity difference-in-differences (RD-DD) framework. Couples who were affected by the reform increased the take-up of fathers' leave but also increased their probability of separation compared to unaffected couples. We argue that the separation effect can be explained by the degree of restrictiveness of the policy in combination with role conflicts in traditional family constellations.Citation
Avdic, Daniel, and Arizo Karimi. 2018. "Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (4): 283–307. DOI: 10.1257/app.20160426Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J32 Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
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