Grandchildren and their grandparents' labor supply

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rupert, Peter; Zanella, Giulio
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of Bologna
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.12.013
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 89-103
• 关键词: labor supply; Grandparents; child care

摘要

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.