Wiemers Emily E, Slanchev Vladislav, McGarry Kathleen, Hotz V Joseph
1 Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
2 Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Res Aging. 2017 Jan;39(1):111-134. doi: 10.1177/0164027516656138.
Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their adult children. Over time, the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined, as incomes increased. In more recent decades, coresidence between adult children and their retirement-age parents has become more common, as children rely on parental support later into adulthood. We use panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the living arrangements of older mothers and their adult children over the life course. We pay particular attention to the relationship between coresidence and indicators of parental and child needs. Our results suggest that for much of the life course, coresidence serves to benefit primarily the adult children rather than their older mother. We also highlight a little known phenomenon, that of children who never leave the parental home and remain coresident well into their later adult years.
上世纪初，老年女性与成年子女同住是很常见的事。随着时间的推移，这种居住安排的比例下降了，因为收入增加了。在最近几十年里，成年子女与退休年龄父母同住的情况变得更加普遍，因为子女在成年后期依赖父母的支持。我们使用收入动态面板研究的面板数据来考察老年母亲及其成年子女在人生历程中的居住安排。我们特别关注同住与父母及子女需求指标之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明，在人生的大部分阶段，同住主要使成年子女受益，而非他们的老年母亲。我们还强调了一个鲜为人知的现象，即那些从未离开父母家、直到成年后期仍与父母同住的子女。
