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Title: Economic Development and the Family Structure: from the Pater Familias to the Nuclear Family

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: We provide a theory that is able to account for the observed co-movement between the shift in intergenerational living arrangements from coresidence to non-coresidence and economic development. Our theory is consistent with the diminution in the status of the elderly documented by some sociologists. The results from our analysis show that, when technical progress is fast enough, the economy experiences a shift from stagnation to growth, there is a transition from coresi-dence to non-coresidence, and the social status of the elderly tends to deteriorate.

Url: https://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2010039.pdf

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Authors: Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro

Series Title: IRES Discussion Paper

Publication Number: 2010-39

Institution: Universit´e catholique de Louvain

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Family and Marriage, Work, Family, and Time

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