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In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the...
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This paper provides an explanation for the postponement of youth emancipation in the Italian context mainly characterized by a sharp increase in both house and rent prices together with stagnant disposable income over the past decade. We first assemble a unique database related to the housing...
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which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries and which helps account for the increase in coresidence in the 1990 …-specific information on job security of fathers and coresidence. In the late 1990s, approximately 75% of young Italians aged 18 to 35 were …
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The issue of whether the social class of grandparents affects grandchildren’s socioeconomic outcomes net of the characteristics of the middle generation is much debated in the social mobility literature. Using data from the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project, we investigate the direct...
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The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on … parental health remains fairly inconclusive. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to estimate a reliable coresidence effect … and (2) to investigate why the coresidence effect can be negative. I argue that coresidence may worsen parental health …
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were most lonely, older adults living with a partner were least lonely. Coresidence provides protection, but not to the …
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transfers and/or coresidence. In one, parents are altruistic, and in the other they make loans to children for purely selfish …
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