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Efficiency in Family Bargaining : Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2006

can live in a nursing home, live alone in the community, or live with any child who has invited coresidence. The second … stage determines the assistance provided by each child in the family. Working by backward induction, we first calculate the … level of assistance that each child would provide to the parent in each possible living arrangement. Using these …

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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly : Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2010

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children...

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Does Family Structure Affect Children'S Educational Outcomes?

Pollak, Robert A.; Ginther, Donna K. - 2021

This paper makes two contributions. First, it adds to the growing literature describing correlations between children's educational outcomes and family structure. Although popular discussions focus on the distinction between two-parent families and single-parent families, McLanahan and Sandefur...

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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2016

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing. The divide is between college graduates and others: those without four-year degrees have family patterns and trajectories very similar to those of high school...

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Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children's Educational Outcomes

Ginther, Donna K. - 2019

51%). These gaps remain substantial after controlling for child and parental characteristics such as income and wealth …

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