, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

representative sample of 3,240 grandparents who are heads of households, we estimate the effect of taking in a grandchild on a … grandparent’s labor force participation and hours worked. We estimate ordinary and two-stage models that distinguishing between … grandparents living only with grandchildren (skipped generation families) and those who also have taken in their own children …

, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to … preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …