Geography of the Family

Konrad, Kai A.; Künemund, Harald; Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Robledo, Julio R.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1914356

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“…First, the results are insignificant and sensitive to control inclusion, which may reflect the use of a binary proximity category that ignores the location of mothers-in-law. Second, although mother's marital status and birth order are strong predictors of proximity in previous work (e.g., Konrad et al (2002), Rainer and Siedler (2009), Compton and Pollak (2009)), we found them to be borderline weak instruments, especially in sub-samples. 27 The NSFH does not include state of birth.…”

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“…3 of adult children to their parents as the outcome of a noncooperative game, but they do Konrad et al (2002) model the proximity 3 Klerman and Leibowitz (1990) find a non-significant effect of the availability of relative care on the probability of returning to work within 3 months (and also within 24 months) following the birth of a child. Their analyses, however, focus on coresident grandmothers rather than grandmothers in close proximity.…”

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Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

Compton

Pollak

2011

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We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is the availability of childcare. We interpret availability broadly enough to include not only regular scheduled childcare during work hours but also an insurance aspect of proximity (e.g., a mother or mother-in-law who can provide irregular or unanticipated childcare). Using two large datasets, the National Survey of Families and Households and the public use files of the U.S. Census, we find that the predicted probability of employment and labor force participation is 4-10 percentage points higher for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with those living further away.

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Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

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Pollak

2011

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“…But aggregating the different ways of caregiving leads to amazing regularities (see Fontaine et al, 2007). 11 The fact that location could be endogenous was examined by Stern, (1995) and Konrad & Robledo, (2002) for example. Correcting for endogeneity is hard as valid instruments are quite difficult to find.…”

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Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings?

2009

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This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place amongst siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe; our sample plots 314 dependant elderly and their 628 adult children. In order to identify the interactions between siblings, we have specified a two-person discrete game model. To estimate this 3 model, while keeping at guard the "coherency" condition, we have added an endogenous selection rule to solve the incompleteness problem arising from multiplicity or absence of equilibrium. Our empirical results suggest that the three classical effects identified by Manski could potentially explain the observed correlation between the siblings' caregiving behaviour.Correlated effects alone appear to be weak. Contextual interactions and endogenous interactions reveal cross-effects. The asymmetric character of the endogenous interactions is our most striking result. The younger child's involvement appears to increase the net benefit of caregiving for the elder one whereas the elder child's involvement decreases the net benefit of caregiving for the younger child.The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded

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“…Firstborns, who make these decisions before their later-born siblings, typically live farther away from their parents, presumably leaving the task of future caregiving to younger siblings (Konrad et al, 2002). Although research has shown that blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to live with older parents and to view coresidence as desirable (Bianchi et al, 2008), less is known about race / ethnic differences in geographic proximity.…”

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“…Conversely, children may compete about who is responsible (or not responsible) for providing care (Konrad et al, 2002;Rainer and Siedler, 2009). Older children may exploit their first mover advantage by moving away from parents and leaving younger siblings behind to provide care.…”

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Geographic Dispersion and the Well-Being of the Elderly

2010

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Perhaps the largest problem confronting our aging population is the rising cost of health care, particularly the costs borne by Medicare and Medicaid. A chief component of this expense is long-term care. Much of this care for an unmarried (mostly widowed) mother is currently provided by adult children. The provision of family care depends importantly on the geographic dispersion of family members. In this study we provide preliminary evidence on the geographic dispersion of adult children and their older unmarried mother. Coresidence is less likely for married adult children, those who are parents and the highly educated and more likely for those who are not working or only employed part time and for black and Hispanic adult children. Close proximity is more common for married children who are parents but less common for the highly educated. When we look at transitions between one wave of data collection and the next (a 2-year interval), about half of adult children live more than 10 miles away at both points, a little less than one quarter live within 10 miles at both points, and 8 percent are coresident at both points in time. Among the 17 percent who make a transition, about half of the changes result in greater distance between the adult child and mother and half bring them into closer proximity. The needs of both generations are likely reflected in these transitions. In fact, a mother's health is not strongly related to most transitions and if anything, distance tends to be greater for older mothers relative to those mothers in their early 50s. Authors' AcknowledgementsThe research reported herein was performed pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) through the Michigan Retirement Research Center at the University of Michigan (Grant #10-M-98362-5-02), funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium with a subcontract to the UCLA. McGarry also gratefully acknowledges support from the National Institute on Aging (R01-AG016593). The opinions and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the opinions or policy of the Social Security Administration, any agency of the Federal government, the Michigan Retirement Research Center, or UCLA. Authors are listed alphabetically. We thank Arturo Harker and Matthew Hill for countless hours of exceptional research assistance in setting up the data and Jenjira Yahirun for her expert help in analysis.The long-term care needs of our aging population will place a substantial burden on our health care system, the finances of the elderly, and the well-being of their families. With nursing homes averaging $75,000 a year and 12 hours a day of home care costing about the same, it is not surprising that the majority of care for the frail elderly is provided informally, typically by family members. For the unmarried elderly, care is most often provided by their adult children. Previous research has shown that children who live near a parent (or who co-reside), provide significantly more care than geographica...

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Geography of the Family

Cited by 66 publications

References 8 publications

Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

Providing care for an elderly parent: interactions among siblings?

Geographic Dispersion and the Well-Being of the Elderly

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