How many parents does it take? Parental time allocation and the effectiveness of fertility subsidies (opens in new tab)

There has long been an apparent consensus in the literature on intra-household allocation and fertility that greater paternal involvement in childcare relaxes maternal time constraints, enabling mothers to increase their labor supply or leisure. Recent evidence, particularly from South Korea, challenges this view: increases in fathers' childcare time have coincided with a further increase in mothers' time dedicated to child-rearing. This paper d...