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In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...
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of coresidence during pregnancy. In this paper, we exploit quasi-natural variation in single motherhood from the moment … birth certificate dataset is unique in that it allows us to distinguish coresidence and legal marital status and further to … identify the duration of pregnancy period without a partner. Results show that although coresidence with the partner during …
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's population aging, traditions of filial piety and co-residence, decreasing number of children, and dearth of formal social … significantly reduces intergenerational co-residence, especially between elderly parents and their adults sons; promotes pensioners …
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coresidence style. We found that (i) the consumption- and productivity-adjusted dependency ratio (both total and old dependency …
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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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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 childrenand will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to...
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-parent decisions, in which coresidence improves college graduates' quality of job matches, we find that lower matched job arrival rates … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage …
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literature investigates differences between those couples who start coresidence and those who do not, we know little about the … likelihood of moving upon the start of coresidence. The aim of this paper is to investigate how individual and couple …-level characteristics are associated with moving, or having a partner move in, at the start of coresidence. We use data from 10 waves of the …
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Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially when public support is inadequate. However, using rich information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we find that the increasing trend in living...
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