Arbeitspapier

Efficient intra-household allocation of parental leave

We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from parenthood-related career interruptions on earnings. We introduce childcare sharing in a collective model of household behavior with public consumption as in Blundell, Chiappori, and Meghier (2005). Conceptually, the solution to the household problem can be thought of as a two-stage process: Parents first agree on public expenditures on professional childcare; then, conditional on the level of public consumption and the budget constraint stemming from stage one, parents determine their individual job absence durations and private consumption shares. Using relative income measures from German parental benefit data as distribution factors, we find evidence for Pareto efficiency in childcare sharing. More precisely, households with higher total incomes purchase more professional childcare, and changes in distribution factors shift the conditional parental leave allocation in favor of the partner whose relative income increased.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5113

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
childcare
collective model
conditional sharing rule
intra-household allocation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Parys, Juliane
Schwerhoff, Gregor
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201010132689
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Parys, Juliane
  • Schwerhoff, Gregor
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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