摘要
健康是影响个人终身发展的关键因素,而子女健康还会对其父母劳动力供给产生不容忽视的影响。本文通过构建理论模型,推导了子女健康对其父母劳动力供给的影响及路径,并结合中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS)数据进行实证检验。结果发现:(1)在面对子女健康冲击时,父母在家庭劳动供给中表现出明显的分工行为,子女健康水平下降会显著降低母亲参加工作的概率,同时显著提升父亲的工作时间;(2)子女健康对父母劳动力供给存在着较强的时间约束,其他家庭成员的照料能显著增加父母的劳动力供给水平;(3)就已有制度安排而言,医疗保险在缓解家庭经济约束方面所发挥的作用相对有限,尚不足以覆盖子女健康受损给父母带来的经济冲击;(4)子女健康对父母劳动力供给的影响只在短期中体现出来,而父母在劳动力市场的长期表现几乎不受影响。最后,本文得出相应的结论和政策启示。
Health is a key factor affecting an individual’s life-long development,and children’s health has a nonnegligible impact not only on themselves,but also on parental labor supply.By constructing a theoretical model,this paper deduces the impact and path of children’s health on parental labor supply.Further,this paper uses the panel data of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)to conduct an empirical test.The results show that:(1)When faced with a shock to children’s health,parents exhibit obvious division of labor in the family,and the decline of children’s health level will significantly reduce the mothers’probability of working,and significantly increase the working hours of fathers;(2)In Chinese-style families,the health of children places a strong time constraint on parental labor supply,and taking care of unhealthy children by other family members can significantly increase parental labor supply;(3)As far as the existing institutional arrangements are concerned,medical insurance plays a limited role in relaxing families’financial constraints,which is not able to balance out the economic shock of children’s health damage on parents;(4)The impact of children’s health on parents’labor supply is relatively limited that only exists in the short run.In the long run,parents’performance in the labor market is hardly affected by children’s health.Finally,this paper draws corresponding conclusions and policy implications.
作者
张兴祥
史九领
庄雅娟
ZHANG Xingxiang;SHI Jiuling;ZHUANG Yajuan(Xiamen University,Xiamen,China)
出处
《经济学动态》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第3期71-87,共17页
Economic Perspectives
基金
国家自然科学基金2019年综合研究专项“‘十四五’经济科学发展战略研究”(71940004)。
关键词
子女健康
劳动力供给
时间约束
经济约束
Children’s Health
Labor Supply
Time Constraints
Financial Constraint
