When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
利用瑞典改革中父亲获得更灵活育儿假的机会，研究发现父亲的工作灵活性增加能减少产妇产后健康并发症，说明男性缺乏工作灵活性会加重母亲的生育健康成本。
We study how fathers' access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and show that increasing the father's temporal flexibility-and thereby his ability to be present at home together with the mother-reduces the incidence of maternal postpartum health complications. Our results suggest that mothers bear part of the burden from a lack of workplace flexibility for men because a father's inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health cost of childbearing.