Unsung Heroes:How Will Intergenerational Care Affect Off-farm Employment of Rural Women of Childbearing Age
Based on the datasets of China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)in 2014,2016,and 2018,this paper adopts various methods including the instrumental variable method,to empirically study the causal relationship between intergenerational care and off-farm employment of rural women of childbearing age.Empirical results show that providing intergenerational care can gener-ally help rural women of childbearing age increase off-farm labor participation rate by 28.2％,and prolong average weekly off-farm labor hours by 14.52 hours.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect of intergenerational care on women of childbearing age in rural areas has an inverted"U"shape with different age and education levels,and it has the largest and most significant effect on women of childbearing age between 30 and 39 years old and educational level of junior high school.Compared with women of child-bearing age who do local off-farm work,intergenera-tional care has a greater positive effect on those who migrate outside.The size of the effect will de-crease with the increase of children's age,and it has the most significant positive impact on women of child-bearing age who have preschool children under 3 years old.Intergenerational care has the largest and most significant impact on women off-farm employment of childbearing age in the eastern region,followed by the western region and the central region.Based on the findings,this paper puts forward policy suggestions to encourage the construction of family support system and the development of infant and childcare services,and to improve the female employment pro-tection system according to the characteristics of different female groups,so as to reduce the burden of rural female childcare.
Intergenerational careRural women of childbearing ageOff-farm employmentHeterogeneity
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