Volume 29, Number 4 (Fall) 1994

Gertler, Paul J., and Lee A. Lillard. 1994. "Introduction: The Family and Intergenerational Relations." Journal of Human Resources 29(4):941-949.

Paul J. Gertler is a senior economist at RAND, a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources, and editor of this Special Issue on the Family and Intergenerational Relations. Lee A. Lillard is a senior economist, Director of the Center for Aging Studies, and Associate Director of the Population Research Center at RAND. Earlier versions of these papers were presented at a conference on Social and Economic Factors Affecting Intergenerational Relations. The conference was sponsored by the RAND Center for Aging Studies and the RAND Population Research Center. The Centers gratefully acknowledge financial support for the conference from NIA program project grant P01AG08291 and NICHD Center grant P50HD12639. The authors are indebted to the conference participants, to Linda J. Waite who co-organized the conference with Lee A Lillard; to Virginia Cain, Jeffrey Evans, Jim Smith, and Richard Suzman, who provided valuable advice and support; and to Joseph G. Altonji, Sara McLanahan, Charles F. Manski, and James R. Walker, who helped edit this volume.