Reassessing the Decline in Parent-Child Old-Age Coresidence During the 20th Century

Robert Schoeni

Working Papers from RAND - Labor and Population Program

Abstract: The share of the elderly living with a child has decreased monotonically throughout the twentieth century, and this has been interpreted as a decline in the role of the family in providing old-age assistance. However, at the same time, the probability of reaching old age has increased dramatically. This note derives a measure that incorporates these two factors to determine whether the expected life years lived in old-age coresidence with a child has in fact decreased.

Keywords: AGED (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 1997
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