The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Karademir, Sencer; Laliberte, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan
• 署名单位: University of Calgary
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/732358
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: Parental leave; FAMILY; INEQUALITY; mothers; EMPLOYMENT; mobility; earnings; canada; gap

摘要

This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find that formal childcare increases the employment rates of mothers as well as that of grandmothers to a lesser extent. Examining heterogeneity of the program's impact across census divisions, we find a negative correlation between the positive effects on mothers' employment and the prepolicy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers.