Household impacts of child health shocks

Evelyn Skoy

Journal of Population Economics, 2024, vol. 37, issue 1, No 20, 28 pages

Abstract: Abstract Women bear a disproportionate share of the unpaid labor within a household, which contributes to gender gaps in life and relationship satisfaction. This paper examines how an exogenous shock that increases the workload within the household impacts the burden of unpaid labor. By exploiting a rich longitudinal dataset from Australia, I estimate the gendered impacts to parental workload and stress, life and relationship satisfaction, and household division of labor when parents have a child with a significant health shock. I find evidence that women experience a decrease in their satisfaction with parenting and life satisfaction. These results are most pronounced for households where the mother is less active in the labor market or less educated. Point estimates indicate that men do not experience the same negative effects.

Keywords: Health shocks; Gender; Household; Satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 J12 J13 J14 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-024-01003-0

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