Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258944 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 30/20
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper studies the relative labor market outcomes of grandmothers in comparison to grandfathers before and after the arrival of the first grandchild using Danish administrative data and an event study approach. We find that women's labor market outcomes decline at a steeper rate than men's after the arrival of the first grandchild. We find gender gaps in earnings of three and nine percent five and ten years after the arrival of the first grandchild, which is almost exclusively driven by women's reductions in full-time employment. We document that these "grandchild penalties" are larger in periods with more generous retirement options.
Subjects: 
grandchildren
female labor supply
gender
inequality
retirement
JEL: 
J13
J14
J16
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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