“…The large body of research addressing the choice of childcare and work among mothers typically concentrates on the labor market implications of government induced monetary incentives (see for instance Gronau, 1973, Heckman, 1974, Blau and Robins, 1988. At the same time, the literature studying the impact of downward intergenerational transfers on the labor supply of young individuals has focused predominantly on consequences of downward monetary gifts such as human capital investment or work disincentives (Becker and Tomes, 1976, Ehrenberg and Sherman, 1987, Wolff, 2006.…”