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The Effects of Providing Childcare on Grandmothers’ Employment and Mental Health in Japan, 日本で孫の育児が祖母の就業とメンタルヘルスに及ぼす影響

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  • Ueno, Yuko
  • 上野, 有子
  • Usui, Emiko
  • 臼井, 恵美子

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In this paper, we examine the relationship between childcare given by a grandmother and her employment and mental health, using the 2005–2009 waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Older Adults, a large and nationally representative panel survey of those aged 50-59 in 2005. We find that when a grandmother provides childcare to grandchildren under the age of 6, the probability of her being employed is reduced by 3.8 percentage points, after we control for time-invariant individual heterogeneity. For those working grandmothers, caring for small grandchildren reduces hours worked per week by just 0.79, and days per week by just 0.069, reductions that are small in magnitude. We also observe that caregiving for small grandchildren is insignificantly related to any psychological distress of grandmothers., 本稿では、2005-2009年の厚生労働省「中高年者縦断調査」結果を用いて、孫の育児と祖母の就業やメンタルヘルスとの関係を検証した。同調査は、2005年時点で50代であった人々を対象とした全国を対象とする大規模調査である。時点間で不変の個人属性をコントロールした分析の結果、祖母が6歳未満の孫の育児を行うと、その就業確率は3.8パーセントポイント低下することが明らかになった。就業している祖母については、6歳未満の孫の育児の週当たり就業時間への影響は0.79時間の減少、週当たり就業日数への影響は0.069日の減少にとどまり、ごくわずかであった。加えて、6歳未満の孫の育児と精神的な負担との関係は有意にはみられなかった。

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  • Ueno, Yuko & 上野, 有子 & Usui, Emiko & 臼井, 恵美子, 2021. "The Effects of Providing Childcare on Grandmothers’ Employment and Mental Health in Japan, 日本で孫の育児が祖母の就業とメンタルヘルスに及ぼす影響," CIS Discussion paper series 691, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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    Keywords

    Childcare; Grandmothers; Employment; Work hours; Labor supply; Mental health; 育児; 祖母; 就業; 就業時間; 労働供給; メンタルヘルス;
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    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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