Publications [#185889] of V. Joseph Hotz

Papers Submitted

1. with K. McGarry and E. Wiemers, Living Arrangements of Mothers and their Adult Children over the Life Course (December, 2010) (Under review.) [pdf]
   (last updated on 2013/02/10)

   Abstract:
   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. However, the recent recession has brought with it numerous accounts of families responding to economic hardship by forming multigenerational households. In this paper we draw on the long panel of data available in the PSID to examine the living arrangements of older women and their adult children over the life course. We pay particular attention to the relationship between socioeconomic status and coresidence. Our results suggest that for much of the life course, coresidence serves to benefit primarily the adult children rather than the older parent. 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.