Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65926 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2010-24
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
In the traditional models of female labour supply formal childcare is assumed to be provided by the market. This is not the case in most European countries. In this paper we estimate the causal effect of a particular kind of informal care, the one provided by grandparents, on mothers' work decisions in Italy. We deal with the endogeneity due to mothers' and grandparents' unobserved preferences by instrumenting grandparents' help. We find that having grandparents helping with childcare increases mothers' labour market participation. The effect is particularly strong for lower educated mothers of young children, in North and Centre Italy.
Subjects: 
female labour supply
informal childcare
intergenerational transfers
JEL: 
D1
J13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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