Housing the Intergenerational Families

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. H. Li ◽  
Jiou-Wun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Intergenerational Coresidence ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Intergenerational Families

This study uses recent survey data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics to examine factors relating to married couples coresiding with parents in Taiwan. We investigate how both factors from parents and married couples influence the continuity of intergenerational coresidence by using longitudinal data. The familiar support to aged parents certainly is a key factor for coresidence. Also, the needs of the married couples are closely related to coresidence, especially the need on housing. The finding indicates that those coresiding young couples in the early family life stages are more likely to keep living in parents’ homes.

Hard Times and Harder Minds: Material Hardship and Marital Well-Being Among Low-Income Families in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (18) ◽  
pp. 2545-2566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Shim ◽  
RaeHyuck Lee ◽  
Jaeseung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Spousal Relationship ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Household Heads

Experiencing material hardship may bring various negative consequences for married couples and family members. However, little is known about this topic in Korea. Using a nationally representative sample from the Korean Welfare Panel Study, we examined how material hardship was associated with marital well-being among low-income families in Korea, separately for husbands (i.e., male household heads) and wives. Overall, we found experiencing any material hardship was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of both family life and spousal relationship, consistently for husbands and wives. We also found depression and self-esteem partially mediated the associations in both groups. Furthermore, among individual items of material hardship, experiencing food hardship was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of family life for both husbands and wives, whereas experiencing problems with credit was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of both family life and spousal relationship for wives but not for husbands.

scholarly journals Married Adults Coresiding with Older Parents: Implications for Paid Work and Domestic Workloads

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Hertog ◽  
Man-Yee Kan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Intergenerational Coresidence

AbstractThe rise of life expectancy throughout the developed world has meant that older adults play an increasingly important role in their grown-up children’s lives. We evaluate whether the intergenerational solidarity theory is useful for understanding the intergenerational transfers of time in Japan given the relatively generous welfare provision for the older adults and the fall in intergenerational coresidence. We apply seemingly unrelated regression models to data of the 2006 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities (Statistics Bureau Japan, 2006) to investigate how coresidence patterns are associated with paid and unpaid work time of adult married children. The sample contains 23,226 married couples where both husband and wife are aged 20 to 59. We find evidence of intergenerational solidarity in coresident households. We also find that “doing gender” is layered through intergenerational exchanges of support between married working-age children and their older parents. Working-age women’s time use patterns are associated with coresidence arrangements and care needs of their older relatives to a much greater extent than working-age men’s. The observed patterns are consistent with healthy older women supporting their daughters’ careers in exchange for care when they need help themselves. For working-age men, the patterns are not very pronounced. Notably, working-age husbands without children appear to be more responsive to their older the parents’ care needs, suggesting that fatherhood may be associated with solidifying gendered role performance within Japanese couples.

scholarly journals A Wife’s Separate Financial Arrangement in Contemporary Japan

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Ono ◽  
Ming-Ching Luoh
Keyword(s):  
Panel Study ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Transaction Cost Economic ◽  
Bank Account ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Cost Economic

This article tests the applicability of Treas’s transaction cost economic framework to contexts outside the allocation of bank accounts among married couples in the United States. Using the Japanese Panel Study of Consumer Life, the authors apply logistic regressions among Japanese couples who have joint accounts to predict (a) the chance that the wife has a separate bank account from the joint account and (b) the chance that she has an allowance. The results provide only partial support for the hypotheses based on Treas’s framework. Whereas Treas argues that the potential discontinuity of a marriage has a major influence on a couple’s separate financial arrangement, the study finds no evidence consistent with this argument. Although some of Treas’s hypotheses are well supported when predicting the chance that a Japanese wife has an allowance, the same hypotheses are not supported when predicting the chance that she has a separate bank account.

Democracy and Nonprofit Growth: A Cross-National Panel Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok Eun Kim ◽  
You Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Political System ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Extensive Growth ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross National

This study hypothesizes that a country with a high level of democracy should experience more extensive growth in its nonprofit sector than authoritarian or less democratic countries, controlling for the relevant social and economic variables. We tested this hypothesis using cross-national longitudinal data. The results indicate that a democratic political system affects positively on the emergence and growth of the nonprofit sector across sample countries. However, the relationship appears to be non-linear, although nonprofit activities are sustained at a certain level. We also found different developmental trajectories among the nonprofit sectors that depended on how different countries operated their democratic political systems.

scholarly journals Early Family Life Course Standardization in Sweden: The Role of Compositional Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-798
Author(s):  
Zachary Van Winkle
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Compositional Changes ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Combine Sequence ◽  
Family Trajectories

Abstract The diversity of early family life courses is thought to have increased, although empirical evidence is mixed. Less standardized family formation is attributed to compositional changes in educational attainment, labour market participation, and childhood living conditions. I investigate whether and why family trajectories have become more or less standardized across birth cohorts in Sweden. I combine sequence metrics with Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions to assess the compositional shifts that drive changes in family formation standardization. Family trajectories of individuals born in 1952, 1962, and 1972 from age 18 to 35 are reconstructed using Swedish register data. My results demonstrate that early family formation has become more standardized across birth cohorts. Further, compositional differences between birth cohorts partially account for this standardization, especially for women. For example, higher levels of educational attainment are associated with family formation standardization. This substantiates arguments that family formation may re-standardize following the second demographic transition.

scholarly journals The Pivotal Role of Women in Informal Care

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1348-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Bracke ◽  
Wendy Christiaens ◽  
Naomi Wauterickx
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course

Supporting and caring for each other are crucial parts of the social tissue that binds people together. In these networks, men and women hold different positions: Women more often care more for others, listen more to the problems of others, and, as kin keepers, hold families together. Is this true for all life stages? And are social conditions, among other things bound to the organization of work and family, an essential explanation of these differences? Data from the sixth wave (1997) of the Panel Study of Belgian Households allow us to answer these questions. The results show that women are the glue holding social relations together. They play a central role as friends, daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers throughout all stages of the life course. Similar life commitments do not reduce these gender differences but instead emphasize them even further.

The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Family Life and Citizen Participation

1997 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Burns ◽  
Kay Lehman Schlozman ◽  
Sidney Verba
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
The Public ◽  
At Home

This study uses regression analysis of data from a telephone survey of 380 married couples to subject to rare empirical test the contention that, because women are unequal at home, they cannot be equal in the polity. The argument is often made that wives' disadvantage in comparison to their husbands with respect to control over family income, availability of free time, power over decisions, or mutual respect dampens their ability to participate fully in politics. In fact, domestic inequalities do have implications for political activity, but these effects differ from what is usually posited by being stronger for husbands than for wives. For husbands, control over major financial decisions and autonomy in using small amounts of time enhance their ability to participate in politics beyond what would be expected on the basis of their other characteristics. In short, being boss at home is politically empowering to husbands.

New Evidence on Earnings Volatility in Survey and Administrative Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 287-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Carr ◽  
Emily E. Wiemers
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Earnings Volatility ◽  
Apparent Inconsistency ◽  
New Evidence

Despite the rise in cross-sectional inequality since the late 1990s, there is little consensus on trends in earnings volatility during this period. Using consistent samples and methods in administrative earnings data matched to the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP GSF) and survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we examine earnings volatility for men from 1978 through 2011. In contrast to the apparent inconsistency in trends across administrative and survey data in the existing literature, we find recent increases in volatility in the SIPP GSF and the PSID, though increases are larger in the PSID.

The Effects of the Great Recession on Family Structure and Fertility

2013 ◽  
Vol 650 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cherlin ◽  
Erin Cumberworth ◽  
S. Philip Morgan ◽  
Christopher Wimer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Term Trend ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Intergenerational Coresidence ◽  
Long Term Trend

Recessions can alter family life by constraining the choices that individuals and couples make concerning their family lives and by activating the family’s role as an emergency support system. Both effects were visible during and after the Great Recession. Fertility declined by 9 to 11 percent, depending on the measure, and the decline was greater in states that experienced higher increases in unemployment. The decline was greater among younger women, which suggests postponement rather than forgoing of births. The fall in fertility was sharpest for Hispanics, a result the authors attribute to a drop in Mexican immigration, which reduced the number of recent immigrants, the group with the highest fertility. Substantial increases occurred in the percentage of young adults, single and married, who lived with their parents, augmenting a long-term trend toward intergenerational coresidence. There was a slight decline in divorce and separation in states with higher unemployment.

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