Data and Code for: Is all caregiving created equal? A comparison of caregiving to children and adults

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin; Yulya Truskinovsky, Wayne State University

Version: View help for Version V1

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Project Citation:

Mommaerts, Corina, and Truskinovsky, Yulya. Data and Code for: Is all caregiving created equal? A comparison of caregiving to children and adults. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E190021V1

Project Description

Summary: These files contain replication files for the article "Is all caregiving created equal? A comparison of caregiving to children and adults", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 2023. The abstract of the paper is as follows: In this paper, we compare patterns of family care provided to children and to adults, and discuss what these patterns suggest about how individuals make decisions over, and ultimately value, such care. We show that patterns of informal adult care do not resemble patterns of informal childcare along three important dimensions: caregiver age, caregiver education, and the response of caregiving to macroeconomic conditions. The finding that childcare and adult care are economically distinct suggest that policies, like paid family leave, that support caregivers should more carefully consider these differences.

Funding Sources: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Childcare; Family care; Time use

JEL Classification:
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply

Geographic Coverage: USA

Time Period(s): 2003 – 2019

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