Data and Code for: "When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Petra Persson, Stanford University; Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University

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Project Citation:

Persson, Petra, and Rossin-Slater, Maya. Data and Code for: "When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health". Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-08-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E191762V1

Project Description

Summary: Code accompanying article with the following 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy

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