The Effects of Father-in-law’s Retirement on Daughter-in-law’s Labor Participation: Empirical Evidence from China

The family division whereby men take charge of external affairs and women internal is deeply rooted in China. However, female labor participation surprisingly high, probably because the mitigating effect intergenerational support provided by elderly. As China’s baby boomers retire, this may change. Will affect women’s decisions? Research has focused on how maternal retirement impacts biological daughters tendency older generations to focus son’s family. Thus, study takes as its research unit. This uses data from 2016 2018 China Family Panel Studies a fuzzy regression discontinuity design explore father-in-law’s affects daughter in-law’s participation. It then compares results with findings mother-in-law’s, father’s, mother’s daughter-in-law’s, son’s, (respectively). show that leads 58.9% increase probability daughter’s participation, mainly via increased time after father-in-law retires. Moreover, heterogeneous according number children, household registration, education level, income level. Additionally, mother-in-law’s promotes daughter-in-law’s parents’ Surprisingly, male plays greater role promoting children. Our for should offer useful reference countries similar East Asian culture.