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Title: Proximity and Co-residence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Descriptions and Correlates

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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DOI: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.91

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Abstract: In this paper we provide an overview of the patterns of intergenerational proximity and coresidence of adult children and their mothers in the U.S., using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the U.S. Census. We highlight the importance of three specification and sample choices in the analysis. First, most previous studies consider coresidence to be the limiting case of proximity, using Tobit, ordered logit, or ordered probit specifications. We argue that proximity and coresidence are qualitatively different, and show that the multinomial logit provides a better representation of the patterns in the data. Second, we argue that substantial differences in the correlates of proximity by gender and marital status indicate the importance of modeling these categories separately. Third, the NSFH allows us to consider the proximity of couples to both his mother and her mother. This information is rarely available in survey data but is important for complete analyses. Our results show that education and age are the most robust predictors of proximity: college graduates are less likely to live near their . . .

Url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.91

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Authors: Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A.

Periodical (Full): Annals of Economics and Statistics

Issue: 117/118

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Pages: 91-114

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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