This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents’ health in the United States. We use the … childcare is detrimental to grandparents’ physical functioning and subjective health. We show that these effects increase with …. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that providing …

This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents’ health in the US. We propose the sex ratio … Study. The results suggest that childcare provision is not beneficial for grandparents’ health and may even be detrimental … more in their grandchildren than parents of sons. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement …

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

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

%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …

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

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

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