Intra‐household allocation of parental leave
研究夫妻如何分配育儿假，发现对未来消费的担忧促使父母限制休假时长以投资人力资本，且相对收入和年龄差异影响分配，高收入家庭更多购买专业育儿服务。
Abstract We introduce childcare sharing in a collective model of household behaviour to investigate which factors make spouses increase or decrease their share of parental leave. The concern about future consumption motivates parents to invest in their human capital and to limit their leave duration. Using relative income and the age difference between spouses as distribution factors, we cannot reject Pareto efficiency in childcare sharing. Higher relative incomes and larger age differences shift the conditional leave allocation towards the relatively poorer and younger partner, respectively. Households with higher total income purchase more professional childcare.