** Accompanying code and summary statistics for : Andersen, Maria Lyster and Hart, Rannveig and Sunde, Hans Fredrik and Davies, Neil M. and Torvik, Fartein Ask, The Cost of Caring: Gendered Health and Labour Market Effects of Grandparenthood (November 01, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5717325 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5717325.

Data Availability

The data used for this study include primary health care records, demographic information, income information, and educational outcomes for entire cohorts of the Norwegian population. Therefore, the data used in this study is only available by application to the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics and the data owners (the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Statistics Norway). The authors cannot share these data with other researchers due to its sensitive nature and potential for identification. However, feel free to reach out if you have questions about the data or have overlapping research projects.