The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté and Stefan Staubli

Journal of Labor Economics, 2026, vol. 44, issue 1, 189 - 227

Abstract: This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find that formal childcare increases the employment rates of mothers as well as that of grandmothers to a lesser extent. Examining heterogeneity of the program’s impact across census divisions, we find a negative correlation between the positive effects on mothers’ employment and the prepolicy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers.

Date: 2026
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