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Grandparents in Multigenerational Households

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  • Paula Albuquerque

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This study provides a profile of the households with coresident grandparents, using the European Community Household Panel. It identifies rising rates of coresidence with grandparents in Portugal between 1994 and 2001, and explores the nature of such trend, using an age-period-cohort approach. Households with grandparents became economically worse than the general population, with skipped-generation households in the worst situation. Multigenerational households may be formed in a particular generation’s interest. Although no formation is directly available, indicators suggest that it is the needs of the younger generations that account for most coresidence situations. One possible benefit of this type of coresidence is the provision of caring services. Very significant proportions of coresident grandparents take care of children, especially small children. Although the proportion of coresident grandparents is the highest in the North region, it is more frequent in the Lisbon (capital) region for these grandparents to take care of children. Skipped generation households are also more concentrated in the Lisbon region.

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  • Paula Albuquerque, 2008. "Grandparents in Multigenerational Households," Working Papers Department of Economics 2008/46, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa.
    • Handle: RePEc:ise:isegwp:wp462008
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    1. Paula Albuquerque & José Passos, 2010. "Grandparents and women's participation in the labor market," Working Papers Department of Economics 2010/16, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa.
    2. Sevias Guvuriro & Frederik Booysen, 2020. "Intra-household cooperation and inter-generational communication in the extended family: a field experiment in a poor urban community in Africa," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 635-653, September.
    3. Mathilde Duflos & Caroline Giraudeau, 2022. "Using the intergenerational solidarity framework to understand the grandparent–grandchild relationship: a scoping review," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 233-262, June.
    4. Karen Glaser & Rachel Stuchbury & Debora Price & Giorgio Gessa & Eloi Ribe & Anthea Tinker, 2018. "Trends in the prevalence of grandparents living with grandchild(ren) in selected European countries and the United States," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 237-250, September.

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