To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Anstreicher, Garrett; Venator, Joanna
• 署名单位: University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Boston College
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.70067
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: force participation; life-cycle; mothers; MARKET; EMPLOYMENT; fertility; proximity; subsidies; REFORM; women

摘要

We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties. We then build a model of labor supply and migration to assess the impacts of childcare subsidies. Childcare subsidies increase earnings and mobility among US women and ignoring migration can understate the welfare benefits of these policies, especially for college-educated women and those whose parents' locations have poor amenities.