Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 15, 2013
Summary:
The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of family size on the proximity between older mothers and adult children by using a large administrative data set from Sweden. Our main results show that adult children in Sweden are not constrained by sibship size in choosing where to live: for families with more than one child, sibship size does not affect child-mother proximity. For aging parents, however, having fewer children reduces the probability of having at least one child living nearby, which is likely to have consequences for the intensity of intergenerational contact and eldercare.
Published in
Demography
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 50 , p.903 -931
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0181-1
ISSN
703370
Subjects
Notes
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