Grandparents ""on Board"":How They Translateinto the Number of Their Young Grandchildren

Filip Chybalski (filip.chybalski@p.lodz.pl) and Edyta Marcinkiewicz (edyta.marcinkiewicz@p.lodz.pl)

No 40, LWS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: We test whether the co-residence of older parents with their adult children at the reproductive age increases the chance of forming a multi-child family. Using data from Wave X of the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) and multinomial logistic regression, we model the number of children using the binomial variable informing if there is an older household member (or not) as the main predictor and controlling for other socio-economic household attributes. Our data set covers 11 European countries. The results do not support the view that intergenerational households in which an elderly person lives include more children. Thus, the co-residence of two adult generations of parents-pensioners and their working-age children does not stimulate growth in the number of multi-child families. The results suggest that what matters for it is the gender equality policy facilitating solving of the motherhood-work conflict for families and women.

JEL-codes: H31 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2023-02
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Published in Decision, 51, no. 2 (2024): 233–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-024-00390-3

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