Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

of time that parents spend on child rearing and, in particular, on educational activities with children. Using time … implement fuzzy-DD and IV-2SLS approaches. Our estimates imply that child care usage reduces the amount of time that parents … spend with their children overall but that there are only small impacts on the time spent on educational activities …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …