Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
利用瑞典育儿假中的速度奖励政策，研究发现更高的福利水平通过增加母亲陪伴时间及质量，改善了年长子女的教育成果，但对年幼子女无显著影响。
We study how parental leave benefit levels affect household labor supply, family income, and child outcomes, exploiting the speed premium (SP) in the Swedish leave system. The SP grants mothers higher benefits for a subsequent child without reestablishing eligibility through market work if two births occur within a prespecified interval. We use the spacing eligibility cutoffs in a regression discontinuity framework and find that the SP improves educational outcomes of the older child but not those of the younger. Impacts are likely driven by increased maternal time and the quality of maternal time relative to the counterfactual mode of care.