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Title: Grandchildren and their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents’ own labor supply. Exploiting the unique genealogical design of the PSID and the random variation in the timing when the parents of first-born boys and girls become grandparents, we estimate a structural labor supply model and find a negative effect on employed grandmother’s hours of work of about 30% that is concentrated near the bottom of the hours distribution, i.e., among women less attached to the labor market. Implications for the evaluation of child care and parental leave policies are discussed.

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Authors: Rupert, Peter; Zanella, Giulio

Series Title: IZA Dicussion Paper Series

Publication Number: 11235

Institution: IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Pages: 39

Publisher Location: Bonn, Germany

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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