NBER Publications by John N. Morris
Working Papers and Chapters
| January 1992 | The Provision of Time to the Elderly by Their Children
with Axel Borsch-Supan, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff
in Topics in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| January 1990 | Why Don’t the Elderly Live with Their Children? A New Look
with Laurence J. Kotlikoff
in Issues in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| February 1989 | How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? A Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance
with Laurence J. Kotlikoff: w2391
This paper presents some preliminary findings about contact between the aged and their children based on a new survey of the aged and their children, entitled The Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged-NBER (HRC-NBER) Child Survey. Data on extended families is quite limited. The HRC-NBER Child Survey represents one of the few attempts to collect economic and demographic data on the elderly and their children. While these data will be used in future,research to test structural models of the living arrangements, the purposes of the current paper are to describe the survey and to examine contact between the elderly and their children. While our findings are preliminary and will be updated and expanded as we receive more data, it appears that a significant minority of the elderly, many of w... |
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