Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263604 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15388
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers' hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and sons/daughters-in-law are not affected. We show important long-run impacts on maternal labor supply and on the child penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare).
Subjects: 
spillover effects
retirement
grandparental childcare
maternal labor supply
child development
JEL: 
13
J22
J26
I38
D64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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