人口与经济Issue(4)：101-113,13.DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1000-4149.2024.00.035
无酬劳动对女性心理健康的影响
The Impact of Unpaid Labor on Women's Mental Health
摘要
Abstract
Mental health is an important indicator for measuring human capital,as well as a livelihood and social issue that has attracted much attention from the country and government.For a long time,women have been the main bearers of household chores and child care,and their participation in unpaid household labor is much longer than that of men,which may affect their mental health level.The article is based on the Grossman's demand for health theory and uses the 2020 survey data from the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)to empirically test the impact and transmission mechanism of unpaid labor on women's mental health.The results finds that an increase in household chores has a significant negative impact on women's mental health,while an increase in childcare time,although having a negative impact on women's mental health,is not significant.Heterogeneity analysis shows that household chores have a more significant negative impact on the mental health level of rural women,young women,and women with higher education levels,while childcare time has a more significant negative impact on the mental health level of elderly women and uneducated women.Robustness analysis shows that after controlling for endogeneity,the negative impact of household chores and childcare time on women's mental health is significantly enhanced.The analysis of the transmission mechanism indicates that unpaid labor mainly affects women's mental health by influencing their labor market performance.With the increase of unpaid working hours,women tend to choose informal employment,and their salary income also decreases,which has a negative impact on their mental health level.Therefore,valuing the value of unpaid labor,introducing family-friendly measures in the workplace,and advocating for men and women to share household labor are important measures to improve the mental health level of women in China.关键词
无酬劳动/家务劳动/儿童照料/女性心理健康Key words
unpaid labor/household chore/child care/women's mental health分类
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黄乾,郭建君,杨青清..无酬劳动对女性心理健康的影响[J].人口与经济,2024,(4):101-113,13.基金项目
国家自然科学基金项目"全面二孩政策对老年人健康的影响、作用机制与社会支持政策模拟"(72074128) （72074128）
国家社会科学基金一般项目"空间关联视角下国际贸易驱动劳动力市场效率与安全协同提升的研究"(23BJL058). （23BJL058）
