Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents
利用1982和1984年全美长期照料调查数据，通过非结构有序离散选择模型分析成年子女的独立照料决策，发现子女的照料决策在时间和家庭成员间存在依赖性。
This paper uses a nonstructural, ordered discrete choice model to measure 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.