Volume 37, Number 3 (Summer) 2002
Checkovich, Tennille J. and Steven Stern. 2002. "Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents." Journal of Human Resources 37(3):441-478.
This paper uses a nonstructural. ordered discrete choice model to mea- sure the effects of various parent and child characteristics upon the independent caregiving decisions of the adult children of elderly parents sampled in the 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS). While significant effects are noted. emphasis is placed on test statistics constructed to measure the independence of caregiving decisions. The test statistic results are conclusive: The caregiving decisions of adult children are dependent across time and family members. Structural models taking dependencies among family members into account note effects similar to those in the nonstructural model.
Tennille J. Checkovich was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, and Steven Stem is a professor at the University of Virginia. The authors would like to thank seminar participants at UVA and the University of Chicago for helpful comments and the Center for Children. Families, and the Law for financial support. The authors take responsibility for all remaining errors. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning November 2002 through October 2005 from Steven Stem, Dept of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
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