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Living Arrangements, Intra-Household Inequality and Children’s Deprivation: Evidence from EU-SILC
A non-negligible proportion of children in Europe live in multifamily households that include other adults beyond their parents: around 4% live with...
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When Does It Matter? The Effect of Three-generational Household Arrangement on Children’s Well-Being across Developmental Stages
Recent social-demographic trends predict a growing importance of grandparents’ role in family wellbeing. Over the past years, the three-generational...
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Welcome upon Conditions: On Visiting a Multigenerational Immigrant House(hold)
This chapter builds upon extensive ethnographic research with South Asian diasporas in Britain. To depict and disentangle the complexity of such...
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A global perspective on household size and composition, 1970–2020
Households are core units of social organization and reproduction, yet, compared to other areas of demographic research, we have limited...
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Historical Trends in Children Living in Multigenerational Households in the United States: 1870–2018
Over the last two decades, the share of U.S. children under age 18 who live in a multigenerational household (with a grandparent and parent) has...
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The Economic Context of Higher Education Expansion: Race, Gender, and Household Finances Across Cohorts and Generations
This article assesses how the economic context of higher education expansion since the mid-20th century has shaped families’ financial lives—in terms...
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“We Keep the Traditions Going”: Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Identities Among Asian Indian Multigenerational Households
Most Asian Indian late-life immigrants who settle in the United States after the age of 60 are sponsored by their adult children under the Family...
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Care Loops Under One Roof: Multigenerational Living, Grandmothers, and Intergenerational Puzzles of Caring Responsibilities in the Czech Republic
This chapter explores the local care loops in the Czech Republic, a country that experienced radical changes in family policies and in the...
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Household and Neighborhood Dynamics in Historic San José, California
San José is a flourishing urban center within Silicon Valley that emerged from the first pueblo in California. Recent results from five...
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Sustaining the Tradition in Multigeneration Families: Women’s Time Use and Unpaid Domestic Work in India
In India, social prejudices against women are culturally entrenched, and women carry an unfair and disproportionate burden of unpaid work, often...
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The Unintended Effects of Social Pensions on Migration: Evidence from Rural Mexico
Prior research on social pensions and other social protection programs has shown that public cash transfers (CTs) may alter the economic behavior of...
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The impacts of housing affordability on the household formation and homeownership of immigrant groups in Canada
Rising housing costs pose challenges for Canadians trying to form independent households, particularly for those that wish to own their home rather...
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Coresidence with Grandparents and Children’s Socioemotional Health in Kindergarten
This study explores linkages between various living arrangements with and without grandparents and children’s socioemotional functioning in...
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Material Hardship and the Living Arrangements of Older Americans
This study investigates the extent to which the household living arrangements of older adults influences their experiences of material hardship....
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Multigenerational Households: A Descriptive Approach to Distinctive Definitions
The Census Bureau defines a multigenerational household as a household consisting of three or more generations (Lofquist 2012). Historically,...
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Transfer Policies on Poverty for Children with Previous Experience in Poverty
This paper assesses the effectiveness of social benefit programs on children who had prior experience with poverty across 27 European countries in...
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Care in practice: negotiations regarding care for the elderly in multigenerational Arab Muslim families in Denmark
Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly...
