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Unpaid Work Throughout the Life Course

Geleitet von Mikko Myrskylä; Emma Zai, Peter Eibich; in Zusammenarbeit mit Yinan Liu (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China)

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Throughout the life course, individuals often provide unpaid care work, such as raising children or grandchildren and taking care of older parents or grandparents. Unpaid work also involves volunteering, such as for local communities or non-government organizations. In this project, we study how unpaid work distributes across the life course and how it impacts the health and well-being of individuals. We also identify how policies encourage, or discourage, certain types of unpaid work. To do so, we employ longitudinal survey and register data and panel regression techniques. To study the impact of policies, we exploit policy changes that provide quasi-experimental variation.

Publikationen

Eibich, P.; Zai, X.:

Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-023. (2022)