Volume 43 - Article 53 | Pages 1545–1562 Author has provided data and code for replicating results

Looking after grandchildren: gender differences in ‘when,’ ‘what,’ and ‘why’: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

By Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto, Karen Glaser

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