Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

No 4867, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we explore the impacts of various factors that affect daughters' and sons' home-leaving decisions. Our results show important differences across genders as well as across countries. The decisions of daughters appear to be more responsive than sons' to family structure as well as to institutional factors such as the labor and the mortgage market.

Keywords: gender; living arrangements; social policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C3 D1 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2010-04
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Published - published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 393-408

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