When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater
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Petra Persson: Stanford U and Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm
Maya Rossin-Slater: Stanford U School of Medicine and IZA, Bonn

Research Papers from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

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 reduces the incidence of maternal postpartum physical and mental health complications. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from a lack of workplace flexibility for men because fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health cost of childbearing.

JEL-codes: I12 I18 I31 J12 J13 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09
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