Payoff of having children - Do elderly parents of more children live in a nursing home less often?

• Název práce v češtině: Odměna za rodičovství - Žijí rodiče, kteří vychovali více dětí, méně často v domovech pro seniory?
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Payoff of having children - Do elderly parents of more children live in a nursing home less often?
• Klíčová slova: senioři, domov důchodců, počet dětí
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Elderly parents, housing arrangements, number of children
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2019/2020
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Vedoucí / školitel: PhDr. Mgr. Jana Votápková, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 10.07.2020
• Datum zadání: 10.07.2020
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 09.06.2021 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 04.05.2021
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 09.06.2021
• Oponenti: Mgr. Petra Landovská

Seznam odborné literatury

Albert, Steven. 1990. Caregiving as a Cultural System: Conceptions of Filial Obligation and Parental Dependency. American Anthropologist 92 (2): 319-331

Alpine, CA., Aging Parents: The Family Survival Guide, Lifetapes Communications, 2003.

Byrne, D., Goeree, M. S., Hiedemann, B., Stern, S. (2009). Formal home health care, informal care, and family decision making. International Economic Review, 50(4), 1205–1261.

Cantor, M. H., Brennan, M., 2000. Social care of the urban elderly: The effects of ethnicity, class and culture. New York Springer

Durant, Thomas J., Christian, Ollie G., 2006. Caregiving to Aging Parents. Forum on Public Policy

Grundy, Emily, Read, Sanna, 2012. Social Contacts and Receipt of Help Among Older People in England: Are There Benefits of Having More Children? The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 742–754.

Mancini, Jay A., Blieszner, Rosemary. 1989. Aging Parents and Adult Children: Research Themes in Intergenerational Relations. Journal of Marriage and Family

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

Research question and motivation

The proportion and number of elderly people are increasing dramatically worldwide. As people are getting older, they often loose ability to take care of themselves. Fingerman and Birditt (2012) suggest that relationships between adults and their parents are distinct from other types of social ties due to their long-shared history and the evolving nature of the relationship from infancy through adulthood. Thus, the most common informal caregiving relationship can be defined such that an adult child provides assistance to an aging parent (Pope et al, 2012).

Ruggles (1994) found that at the beginning of the 20th century more than 70% of Americans aged 65 or older resided with kin. Seelbach et al (1989) further suggest that females are more likely to endorse living with their children if they did not wish to live alone or were unable to take care of themselves. However, Klinenberg (2012) has shown that if there is a possibility adult Americans over 65 years prefer to live independently. This trend of separate housing changes with time. Only 15% of widows aged 65 and older lived alone in 1900, whereas 66% lived alone in 2011 and 42% of population aged 65 and more lived alone in America (Ruggles 1996; U.S. Census Bureau 2011,2017), while not taking into consideration any other aspects like activities of daily lives (ADL), distance from children. Despite the trend toward independent living among older Americans many of them are not able to live alone without assistance. In that case Seelbach et al (1989) show that older parents expect their adult children to assist them in times of need. Indeed, overwhelming majority, at least 90%, of adults over 65 who need help with daily tasks receive help informally from friends or family (National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP Public Policy Institute, 2015). Silverstein, Gans & Yang (2006) who examined living arrangements of aging parents found out that older men that need help with activities of daily life (ADLs) generally receive care from their wives, whereas older women with disabilities are more likely rely on family or enter nursing homes. This phenomenon is however consistent with longer expected length of life of women compared to men.

In my thesis I will focus on the elder adults living in the Europe in order to inspect whether having more children decreases the probability that an elderly parent lives in a nursing home or increases the probability that he or she lives in one's own home or shares a household with children. The phenomenon will be investigated for different institutional settings. Observable socio-demographic characteristics will be controlled for too.


Contribution

The aim of the thesis is to contribute to existing literature and to broaden the existing research on aging population by finding out whether having more children will decrease the probability of aging parents to live in nursing homes. In addition, we will find out other aspects that may influence the probability of living in a nursing home. The results should identify accommodation arrangements of the elderly, and help policy-makers while deciding family policies regarding the elderly segment of population.



Methodology

I will use data provided by SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a database on individuals aged 50+ from all EU countries, Switzerland and Israel. Whether aging respondent lived in a nursing home at the time of interview will be the dependent variable. Alternative variables of the type of accommodation will be tested too. Independent variables will be selected appropriately and their effect on the probability of being in a nursing home will be tested using an econometric model. The model we will use is a linear probability model.


Outline

Introduction
Literature review
Methodology
Data description
Comments on results
Discussion
Conclusion