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Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data

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  • Nicole Maestas
  • Matt Messel
  • Yulya Truskinovsky

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A significant share of the rapidly growing demand for long-term care is met by family members, many of whom also work, and family caregiving has been shown to affect labor market outcomes. We use survey responses about family caregiving roles linked to administrative earnings records to estimate the employment trajectories of family caregivers over a 25-year period around the reported start of a caregiving episode. These trajectories vary significantly by gender. Relative to a matched comparison group, caregiving precipitates a drop in both earnings and employment for women, while men enter caregiving only after experiencing significant labor supply disruptions.

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  • Nicole Maestas & Matt Messel & Yulya Truskinovsky, 2024. "Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 42(S1), pages 183-218.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:doi:10.1086/728810
    DOI: 10.1086/728810
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    1. Eduardo Ramirez Lizardi & Elisabeth Fevang & Knut Røed & Henning Øien, 2025. "Effects of Health Shocks on Adult Children's Labor Market Outcomes and Well‐Being," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(10), pages 1804-1820, October.
    2. Carole Roan Gresenz & Jean M Mitchell & R. Scott Turner & Wilbert Van der Klaauw & Crystal Wang, 2025. "Cognitive Health, Household Financial Decision-Making, and Intrahousehold Financial Spillovers," Staff Reports 1169, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    3. Gabrielle Pepin & Yulya Truskinovsky, 2023. "Not Just for Kids: Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Adult Care," Upjohn Working Papers 23-381, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    4. Kathleen McGarry, 2025. "The family and long-term care," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 877-896, September.

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