Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 15, 2023
Summary:
Understanding the help and support that is exchanged between family members of different generations is of increasing importance, with research questions in sociology and social policy focusing on both predictors of the levels of help given and received, and on reciprocity between them. We propose general latent variable models for analysing such data, when helping tendencies in each direction are measured by multiple binary indicators of specific types of help. The model combines two continuous latent variables, which represent the helping tendencies, with two binary latent class variables which allow for high proportions of responses where no help of any kind is given or received. This defines a multivariate version of a zero-inflation model. The main part of the models is estimated using MCMC methods, with a bespoke data augmentation algorithm. We apply the models to analyse exchanges of help between adult individuals and their noncoresident parents, using survey data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
Published in
Annals of Applied Statistics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 17 , p.1 -1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOAS1680
ISSN
19326157
Subjects
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Open Access
Copyright © 2023 Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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