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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006:28

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Engström, Per ; Kolm, Ann-Sofie ; Liang, Che-Yuan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82656
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-18862
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET