祖父母
社会政策
心理学
老年学
经济增长
经济
医学
发展心理学
市场经济
作者
Peter Eibich,Xianhua Zai
标识
DOI:10.1007/s00148-024-01044-5
摘要
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.
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