Are Leavers and Returners Different? Determinants of Coresidence After Adult Children Leave Home

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dc.contributor.advisorIceland, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.authorChan, Chaowenen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:52:05Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-07en_US
dc.description.abstractThe paper examines the determinants of coresidence between parents and adult children. Using 34 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1968 to 2005 and event history models, I find that there is an unambiguous distinction between nest leavers and nest returners. Marital status and employment status of adult children are the most important time-dependent determinants of nest-returning, and older cohorts have a higher propensity to return home. Parents in good health support their children returning home when significant life events endanger the adult children's ability to live alone. Therefore I argue that coresidence is a rational support but not a competition between children's need and parent's need. Further cohort comparisons also show adult children's life events matter for older cohorts, but parents' marital disruption matters for younger cohorts.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8585
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Demographyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Individual and Family Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCoresidenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNest Returningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledThe Affluence Hypothesisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledThe Autonomy Hypothesisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLife Courseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEvent History Modelen_US
dc.titleAre Leavers and Returners Different? Determinants of Coresidence After Adult Children Leave Homeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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