Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
April 15, 2015
Summary
We use household survey data from the UK to study how close middle-aged men and women in partnerships live to their parents and their partner’s parents. We find a slight tendency for couples to live closer to the woman’s parents than the man’s. This tendency is more pronounced among couples in which neither partner has a college degree and in which there is a child. In other respects, proximity to parents is gender-neutral, with the two partners having equal influence on intergenerational proximity. Better educated couples live farther from their parents. And although certain family characteristics matter, intergenerational proximity is primarily driven by factors affecting mobility over long distances, which are mainly associated with the labor market, as opposed to gender or family circumstances.
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 52 , p.379 -399
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0379-0
ISSN
703370
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Notes
Not held in Research Library - bibliographic reference only
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