CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Berkovics, Beáta |
|---|---|
| Title | The Effects of Grandparental Childcare on Mothers' Labor Force Participation in Germany |
| Summary | In this thesis I estimate the effects of childcare provision from maternal grandmothers on mothers’ labor market decisions. I use an instrumental variables approach on the data from the first and second waves of the Generations and Gender Survey, taking advantage of the exogenous variation in the grandmothers availability. Multiple instruments are included in the first stage equation: a proximity dummy to the mother, pension eligibility, and the number of sisters alive. I find that help from the maternal grandmother has significant effects on the extensive margin, but not on the intensive one. It increases the participation of mothers on the labor market by 31 percentage points, and the probability of working of those who are already on the labor market by 54 percentage points. |
| Supervisor | Weber, Andrea |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/berkovics_beata.pdf |
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