Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313833 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Population Economics [ISSN:] 1432-1475 [Volume:] 37 [Issue:] 4 [Article No.:] 71 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2024
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents’ health in the United States. We use the sex ratio among older adults’ children as an instrument for grandparental childcare provision. Our instrument exploits that parents of daughters transition to grandparenthood earlier and invest more in their grandchildren than parents of sons. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that providing childcare is detrimental to grandparents’ physical functioning and subjective health. We show that these effects increase with the intensity of grandchild care provision, and the effects are driven primarily by grandmothers.
Subjects: 
Grandparents
Childcare provision
Instrumental variables
Health
JEL: 
I10
J13
J14
C26
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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