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

Robert F. Schoeni

Published 1997

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 paper 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. The results imply that the role of the family in providing old-age support actually intensified over the first four decades of the 1900s, and then it began to fall through 1990.

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  • Year: 1997
  • Paperback Pages: 18
  • Document Number: DRU-1629-NIA

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Schoeni, Robert F., Reassessing the Decline in Parent-Child Old-Age Coresidence During the 20th Century. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1997. https://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU1629.html.
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