With Strings Attached: Grandparent-Provided Child Care and Female Labor Market Outcomes

García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë

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“…Our estimates suggest that the effect of grandparental childcare obtained using proxy variables for provision of grandparental childcare, as in Del Boca (2002), might be underestimated. Similarly, García-Morán and Kuehn (2012) find that the effect of proximity on labour force participation is smaller than the effect of actual childcare provided by relatives.…”

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The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach

2014

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Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to unobserved preferences. In light of the potential outcome framework, we interpret the biases resulting from unobserved preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents for activities other than childcare. Using an Instrumental Variable approach on Italian data, we find that the effect of grandparental childcare on mothers' labour supply is positive, statistically significant and economically relevant. The effect is stronger for lower educated mothers, with young children and living in the North and Centre.JEL Classification: J10, J13, C26

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The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach

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“…Nagase (1997) also finds that the presence of a grandmother in the household significantly increases the probability of employment for Japanese married women, while the presence of a grandfather does not seem to help. Negligible to substantial positive impacts of coresidence or nearby residence with grandparents on female employment are documented in a few studies in developed countries (Compton and Pollak 2014;Garcia-Moran and Kuehn 2012;Kolodinsky and Shirey 2000). A related branch of study examines the importance of time transfers from grandparents.…”

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Coresidence with elderly parents and female labor supply in China

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2016

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“…3 housekeeping tasks. The reservation wage is reduced for the women, leading to an increase in labour supply (Compton and Pollak, 2014;García-Morán and Kuehn, 2017;Posadas and Vidal-Fernández, 2013;Shen et al, 2016). Fourth, co-residing parents or in-laws might be better able to impose their preferences on a woman's labour market behaviour than distant parents or in-laws (Chu et al, 2014).…”

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Patrilocal Residence and Female Labour Supply

2017

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With Strings Attached: Grandparent-Provided Child Care and Female Labor Market Outcomes

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach

The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Coresidence with elderly parents and female labor supply in China

Patrilocal Residence and Female Labour Supply

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