The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development

This article explores the impact of grandparents’ supervision time input relative to effect parents’ childcare provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify effects interest through panel data estimation methods. The findings provide evidence complementarity between parental grandparental involvement in child-rearing process. Specifically, care has a stronger than intervention vocabulary skills child. However, child larger does investment grandparents socio-behavioral picture similarities measure cognitive ability children 3 6 years old.