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Grandmothers’ Labor Supply

View ORCID ProfileWolfgang Frimmel, View ORCID ProfileMartin Halla, View ORCID ProfileBernhard Schmidpeter and View ORCID ProfileRudolf Winter-Ebmer
Journal of Human Resources, September 2022, 57 (5) 1645-1689; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.1.0419-10144R1
Wolfgang Frimmel
Wolfgang Frimmel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market.
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Martin Halla is Full Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz () and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn, and the Austrian Public Health Institute GÖG, Vienna.
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Bernhard Schmidpeter
Bernhard Schmidpeter is Researcher the RWI, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn.
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Rudolf Winter-Ebmer is Full Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn, the Institute for Advanced Studies IHS, Vienna, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR in London.
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vol. 57 no. 5 1645-1689
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.1.0419-10144R1
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
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  • Received April 1, 2019
  • Accepted June 1, 2020
  • Published online August 16, 2022.

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  1. Wolfgang Frimmel,
  2. Martin Halla,
  3. Bernhard Schmidpeter and
  4. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
  1. Wolfgang Frimmel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market.
  2. Martin Halla is Full Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (martin.halla{at}jku.at) and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn, and the Austrian Public Health Institute GÖG, Vienna.
  3. Bernhard Schmidpeter is Researcher the RWI, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn.
  4. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer is Full Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and is also affiliated with the Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market, the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA, Bonn, the Institute for Advanced Studies IHS, Vienna, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR in London.
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