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Title: Extended family living among elderly women aged 60+ in Brazil in 2010: Comparing women who had or did not have a live birth
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This study looks at the extended family household living of elderly women aged 60+ in Brazil in 2010 (35.9 percent) by whether they had had a live birth using 2010 Brazilian census data (36.8 vs. 29.0 percent). It applies a binomial multivariate logistic model containing socio-demographic, socio-economic, and socio-geographic characteristics to the two groups of women both nationally and by broad income group. It decomposes the gap into propensity differences (118.9%) and compositional differences (-23.5%). The study found that many characteristics such as income had similar relations with the probability of extended family living among women who had or did not have a live birth. While basic income had a negative relation, receiving pension income among lower income elderly women had a positive relation. This finding was a possible side effect of the non-contributory pension, as a similar finding did not exist in other income groups. The major difference between the two fertility groups was that factors associated with a special ‘need’ for informal support (such as having a disability or being very old) were more important for the co-residence of women who had never had a live birth. For both long-standing cultural as well as politico-economic reasons, Brazilians may expect a network of kin, not just biological children, to care for and sometimes share, residence with elderly family members AND they have developed a non-contributory pension program aimed at the very poor that enables old people to control and share resources within what may be extended family households.
Url: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/2018-01.pdf
Url: https://cde.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/839/2018/12/cde-working-paper-2018-01.pdf
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Authors: DeVos, Susan
Series Title: CDE Working Paper
Publication Number: 2018-01
Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pages: 39
Publisher Location: Madison, WI
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Family and Marriage, Health, Reproductive and Sexual Health
Countries: Brazil