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 … "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior …

We conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of why children live with (or near) their parents and provide care and … that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or near) their elderly parents and/or to provide care and attention to them … that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social …