Agriculture to Industry: the End of Intergenerational Coresidence

Luca Pensieroso and Alessandro Sommacal

No 2017007, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: We show that the structural change of the economy from agriculture to industry was a major determinant of the observed shift in intergenerational coresidence. We build a two-sector overlapping generation model of the structural change out of agriculture, in which the coresidence choice is endogenous. We calibrate the model on US data and simulate it. The model can match well the decline in US intergenerational coresidence between 1870 and 1940.

Keywords: living arrangements; family economics; structural change; economic development; unified growth theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 J10 O11 O33 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2017-05-23
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Journal Article: Agriculture to Industry: the End of Intergenerational Coresidence (2019)
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