Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …

literature, we find no statistically significant impact of breastfeeding on a number of health outcomes, but we see an … improvement in child emotional development and maternal mental health. …

child health. Focussing on body weight indicators as our health outcome of interest, we examine the effects of exogenous … variations in family size on child health. We find no significant empirical support in favor of the quantity-quality trade …

Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having … grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique genealogical design of the PSID and the random variation … in the timing when the parents of first-born boys and girls become grandparents, we estimate a structural labor supply …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our …

We study how becoming a grandparent affects grandparents' labor supply. In a simple model of the allocation of time in … grandparents and grandchildren live and during the first years since becoming a grandparent (i.e., when the grandchildren are …

Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having … grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique genealogical design of the PSID and the random variation … in the timing when the parents of first-born boys and girls become grandparents, we estimate a structural labor supply …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our …

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 …

intergenerational relationships, children’s contact with grandparents. Results from both ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed …, grandparents. More than one-quarter of this negative relationship is explained by separation between parents that occurs after …