title: Elderly poverty alleviation through living with family.
abstract: "We estimate here the extent of United States elderly poverty alleviation through living with family. These estimates are motivated by public-policy concern about the well-being of the elderly, and by the relevance of the process for fertility under the old-age-security hypothesis. An inter-temporal poverty-measurement model is estimated with 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation income and wealth data. Without extended-family co-residence, and assuming no bequests, poverty rates would increase 42% over observed rates. Female elderly account for almost all the alleviated poverty. As a population, their impoverishment with age is effectively prevented by co-residence.  Proportionately more black than white elderly are beneficiaries of poverty alleviation through living with family, but white elderly are more likely to be beneficiaries if at risk."
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000569:Americas; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005006:Ethnicity; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D009826:Old Age Assistance; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011203:Poverty; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Americas; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Ethnic Groups; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Geographic Factors; Living Arrangements; Microeconomic Factors; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Old Age Security; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Poverty--prevention and control; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Sex Factors; Social Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; United States