Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave

Arbeitspapier

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father’s quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe. This paper provides arguments for why it may be welfare improving for both parents to increase the father’s share of the family’s parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father’s quotas may not be optimal since it fails to recognise potentially heterogenous preferences. Instead, self-commitment devices should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family’s leave time.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006:28

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Thema: Parental leave ; Hyperbolic discounting ; Addiction ; Elternzeit ; Väter ; Mütter ; Quotenregulierung ; Zeitpräferenz ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Engström, Per ; Kolm, Ann-Sofie ; Liang, Che-Yuan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (wo): Uppsala
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82656
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18862
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ