The allocation of resources in intergenerational households: adult children and their elderly parents.
基于1993年美国70岁以上老人数据，研究发现代际家庭中子女控制的收入显著影响其劳动供给和照料父母的时间，资源控制权转移可能降低总照料水平。
Resource pooling in intergenerational households was tested to ascertain the potential policy implications for the welfare of elderly adults. Currently unmarried elderly respondents from a total of 583 households who resided with one of their adult children were included based on the Survey of Assets and Health Dynamics a nationally representative sample of community-resident persons aged 70 and older in 1993. Total household non-labor income and the childs non-labor income was measured in addition to the value of housing assets and home ownership. The regression results provided strong evidence that the intergenerational households do not behave in a way that is consistent with common-preference models. Income under the childs control had a sizable and statistically significant effect on intra-household allocation. Increases in the childs non-labor income decreased both the probability of the childs full-time work and the probability of providing parental care. As the childs control of resources increased more time was allocated to activities other than labor supply and parental care. Neither of the income variables had a significant impact on the parents use of formal care. The childs income had a significant positive effect on the households demand for prescription drugs for the parent. With respect to parental dental visits although the parameter estimate for total household income exhibited the expected positive and significant effect the coefficient on childs income was statistically insignificant at conventional levels (p = 0.17). Home ownership had a significant effect on the childs allocation of time to market work. Two simulations involving the shifting of resource control within the household and providing additional cash assistance to eligible families suggested that resource control has a significant impact on labor supply and informal care. Cash transfer to coresident children might result in lower total care than policies which provide additional resources directly to the parent.