%0 Unpublished Work %A Morosow, Kathrin %A Jalovaara, Marika %A Härkönen, Juho %D 2018 %T Cash-for-Care use and Union Dissolution in Finland %U https://su.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Cash-for-Care_use_and_Union_Dissolution_in_Finland/6662438 %R 10.17045/sthlmuni.6662438.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/12183302 %K Cash-for-care %K divorce %K separation %K Finland %K division of work %K child care policies %K ‘Stockholm Reports in Demography’ %K Sociologiska institutionen %K Department of Sociology %K SUDA %K Stockholm University Demography Unit %K Stockholms universitets demografiska avdelning %K Demography not elsewhere classified %K Sociology %X Abstract: Prominent theories have long suggested that couples’ gendered division of labor decreases the risk of separation. Family policies such as the Finnish cash-for-care (CFC) benefit, which is paid if a young child does not attend public daycare, may encourage a gendered division of labor, at least temporarily. Using Finnish register data, this study examines the effect of receiving the CFC benefit on the short- and long-term risks of separation. Discrete-time event history analyses suggest a lower separation risk while the benefit is taken, but no effect in the long term. Fixed-effects models for non-repeated events indicate postponement of separation during benefit take-up, as well as selection into longer periods of CFC use for couples with higher latent propensity to separate. It is concluded that the CFC benefit use, signaling a gendered division of labor, predicts a lower separation risk during receipt of the benefit but not beyond that period. %I Stockholm Research Reports in Demography