| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10306 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10306 |
| Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country | |
| Eric Edmonds; Kristin Mammen; Douglas L. Miller | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-02-23 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite the importance of living arrangements for well-being and production, the effect of changes in household income on living arrangements is not well understood. This study overcomes the identification problems that have limited the study of the link between income and living arrangements by exploiting a discontinuity in the benefit formula for the social pension in South Africa. In contrast to the findings of the existing literature from wealthier populations, we find no evidence that pension income is used to maintain the independence of black elders in South Africa. Rather, potential beneficiaries alter their household structure. Prime working age women depart, and we observe an increase in children under 5 and young women of child-bearing age. These shifts in co-residence patterns are consistent with a setting where prime age women have comparative advantage in work away from extended family relative to younger women. The additional income from old age support may induce a change in living arrangements to exploit this advantage. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10306 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567935 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Eric Edmonds,Kristin Mammen,Douglas L. Miller. Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country. 2004. |
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