Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability
利用瑞典陪产假改革，发现增加父亲育儿假使用反而提高了夫妻分居概率，原因可能是政策强制性与传统家庭角色冲突。
We study how relationship stability of couples is affected by an increase in fathers’ involvement in staying home from work with young children. We make use of a parental leave reform in Sweden that earmarked one month of paid leave to each parent in a regression discontinuity difference-in-differences (RD-DD) framework. Couples who were affected by the reform increased the take-up of fathers’ leave but also increased their probability of separation compared to unaffected couples. We argue that the separation effect can be explained by the degree of restrictiveness of the policy in combination with role conflicts in traditional family constellations.