Trade-offs in intergenerational family care provision

Monica Carney

Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, vol. 22, issue 2, No 8, 563-593

Abstract: Abstract With an aging U.S. population, there is an increasing need for elderly care. One aspect of family care that is poorly understood is the trade-off for the generation of grandparents between the provision of care and support for their elderly parents and provision of care for their grandchildren. I evaluate the impact of a parent’s death on the likelihood of an individual providing child care to grandchildren using the Health and Retirement Study and find that such a death leads to an increase in the likelihood of child care, suggesting that many grandparents would provide child care services if they did not have prior elderly care and support obligations. There is a positive effect of this additional care of grandchildren on fertility for individuals’ only daughters and daughters who do not live within 10 miles of grandparents. However, there is no increase in labor force participation for these groups.

Keywords: Child care; Elderly care; Labor force participation; Fertility; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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