Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2013
Abstract
One-fifth of children aged below five with employed mothers benefit from grandparent provided child care as their main source of daycare in the U.S. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we investigate how grandchild care needs relate to intergenerational transfers of time and money and grandparents’ labor supply behavior. We find that grandparents with a new born grandchild are more likely to provide grandchild care while married grandparents are also more likely to be employed and provide financial help. Grandparents with grandchildren living close by provided higher time transfers while married grandmothers with resident grandchildren also worked longer hours.
Keywords
Grandchild care, Intergenerational Transfers, Grandparents’ Labor Supply
Discipline
Behavioral Economics | Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
26
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 06-2013
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
HO, Christine.
Grandchild Care, Intergenerational Transfers, and Grandparents’ Labor Supply. (2013). 1-26.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1512
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Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in Review of Economics of the Household https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-013-9221-x