Grandparents and women’s participation in the labor market

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Because we have only considered situations in which the main care received by a child, other than parental care, is provided by grandparents (a scenario which ignores other situations where grandparents may act as an essential background support), the results suggest that grandparental care does indeed play an important role in determining the probability of women working in our chosen set of countries.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011