Posadas, Josefina; Vidal-Fernández, Marian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
childcare increase female labor force participation and if so, up to what extent? The main challenge to answer this question is … that a positive relationship between grandparents’ childcare and female labor force participation might not be causal. We …’ childcare on maternal labor force participation (MLFP). We compare OLS and IV estimates and find that grandparents’ childcare …