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| The division of family labor: care for elderly parents | | Author(s) | Douglas A Wolf, Vicki Freedman, Beth J Soldo |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, special issue, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp 102-109 |
| Keywords | Children [offspring] as carers ; Siblings ; Family relationships ; Mathematical models ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors consider the division of caregiving efforts among the children of older, functionally limited parents. Their model of parental care assumes that care decisions are made in the context of an extended family, with each child taking into account not only the parent's needs and the child's own circumstances, but also the characteristics and actual care behaviour of siblings. They propose a simultaneous-Tobit statistical framework that embodies these assumptions. The model is estimated using data from the 1993 Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. The findings indicate that a child's hours of parent care are reduced, but on much less than a one-for-one basis, as the parent-care hours of siblings increase. They also find that a child's supply of parent-care hours is reduced by having sisters, holding consistent the care efforts of siblings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125267 A |
| Classmark | P6:SS: SV: DS:SJ: 3LM: 7T |
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