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Does Remarriage Expand Perceptions of Kinship Support Among the Eldrely?

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  • Sara Curran

    (Princeton University)

  • Sara McLanahan

    (Princeton University)

  • Jean Knab

    (Princeton University)

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This study addresses the debate over whether higher-order marriages will help offset the expected loss of social support from kin due to divorce for future generations of the elderly. We use data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH1, 1987-88) to examine the effects of marriage, marital disruption, and remarriage on perceptions of overall support and support from kin. To measure overall support, we look at whether respondents say that have someone to (1) turn to in an emergency, (2) borrow money from, and (3) talk to when they are depressed. To measure support from kin, we look at whether respondents name kin as a source of support. We find that marriage and remarriage increase perceptions of support from kin, whereas divorce reduces perception of support. We also find that men benefit more from marriage and lose more from divorce than women. Taken together our findings suggest growing inequality in social support among the future elderly population.

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  • Sara Curran & Sara McLanahan & Jean Knab, 2000. "Does Remarriage Expand Perceptions of Kinship Support Among the Eldrely?," Working Papers 313, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research..
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    National Survey of Families and Households;

    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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