retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform extending long-term care (LTC) benefits (in the form of subsidies and … supports) in Spain after 2007 on caregiving spouse's early retirement intention. We subsequently examine the effect of … retirement reform among private sector workers in 2013. We document evidence of a 10pp reduction in the early retirement …

This paper examines the implications of providing care to elderly parents for adult children's retirement plans using … microdata from a Japanese survey. We find no significant effect of caregiving on family caregivers' planned retirement age if we … do not take into account caregiving intensity but find a negative and significant effect on retirement plans for …

Grandmothers’ availability for childcare has been shown to increase the labor force participation (LFP) and fertility … of daughters. However, grandmothers’ childcare availability depends highly on their LFP. When grandmothers work …, intergenerational income transfers to their daughters may increase at the expense of time transfers (through childcare). Using a Two …

their retirement decision. We find significant positive effects on informal care provided by women retiring from employment …This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … regression discontinuity design. We exploit early retirement thresholds for women in the German pension system as instruments for …

's labor market outcomes decline at a steeper rate than men's after the arrival of the first grandchild. We find gender gaps in … earnings of three and nine percent five and ten years after the arrival of the first grandchild, which is almost exclusively … driven by women's reductions in full-time employment. We document that these "grandchild penalties" are larger in periods …

can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and reliable source of childcare. However, while grandparent …-provided childcare helps young parents (especially young mothers) overcome the negative effects of child rearing on their labor market … participation, it can sometimes conflict with the objective of providing additional income through employment for older workers …