Measuring Child Work and Residence Adjustments to Parents'Long-Term Care Needs

Steven Stern ()

Virginia Economics Online Papers from University of Virginia, Department of Economics

Abstract: This article estimates the effects of various parent and child characteristics on the choice of care arrangements of the parent, taking inot account the potential endogeneity of some of the child chararcteristics. Three equations are estimated: a care choice equation, a child location equation, and a child work equation. Results suggest a hieracrchy of family decision making; child locations affect the care decision, which affect child work decisions. The results also question previous research attempting to explain causes of secular trends in long-term care.

Keywords: caregiving; estimation methodology; siblings; proximity; causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 1996
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