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Family Transfers With Retirement-Aged Adults in the United States: Kin Availability, Wealth Differentials, Geographic Proximity, Gender, and Racial Disparities

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  • Ashton M. Verdery
  • Jonathan Daw
  • Colin Campbell
  • Rachel Margolis

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This paper examines transfers of time and money between retirees and their children. It uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to test whether numbers of children, parent-child wealth differentials, geographic proximity, and gender contribute to racial and ethnic differences in transfers of time and money between retirement-aged adults and their children. Critical components of the analysis include measuring kin availability, the spatial and social embeddedness of family networks, supply as well as demand for transfers, and gender. Key limitations are that we exclude those who have no living family members with whom they could transfer, and we do not examine the role of non-familial transfers.

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  • Ashton M. Verdery & Jonathan Daw & Colin Campbell & Rachel Margolis, 2017. "Family Transfers With Retirement-Aged Adults in the United States: Kin Availability, Wealth Differentials, Geographic Proximity, Gender, and Racial Disparities," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2017-9, Center for Retirement Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:crr:crrwps:wp2017-9
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