Displacing the family: Union army pensions and elderly living arrangements

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1269-1292

  Costa, Dora L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009927964     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516392     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Börsch-Supan, Axel; Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; and Morris, John N. "Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod-Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autoçorrelated Errors." In Topics in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press (for NBER), 1992.
2. Costa, Dora L. "Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records." Explorations Econ. Hist. 30 (October 1993): 424-49.
3. _. "Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates." Explorations Econ. Hist. 32 (October 1995): 540-52. (a)
4. _. "Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans." Q.J.E. 110 (May 1995): 297-319. (b)
5. Epstein, Abraham. The Challenge of the Aged. New York: Vanguard, 1928.
6. Fogel, Robert W. "Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy." A.E.R. 84 (June 1994): 369-95.
7. Fogel, Robert W.; Haines, Michael; Pope, Clayne L.; Rosenberg, Irwin H.; Scrimshaw, Nevin S.; Trussell, James; and Wimmer, Larry T. "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death." Grant proposal submitted to National Institutes of Health, 1991.
8. Glasson, William H. Federal Military Pensions in the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1918. (a)
9. _. "The South's Pension and Relief Provisions for Soldiers of the Confederacy." In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Session of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina. Bulletin no. 23. Raleigh: North Carolina Hist. Comm., 1918. (b)
10. Longino, Charles F., Jr. "Geographical Distribution and Migration." In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George. San Diego: Academic Press, 1990.
11. Massachusetts Commission on Old Age Pensions, Annuities, and Insurance. Report of the Commission on Old Age Pensions, January, 1910. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1910.
12. Michael, Robert T.; Fuchs, Victor R.; and Scott, Sharon R. "Changes in the Propensity to Live Alone, 1950-1976." Demography 17 (February 1980): 39-56.
13. Morgan, James N., et al. Income and Welfare in the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill (for Univ. Michigan Survey Res. Center), 1962.
14. Ruggles, Steven. Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth-Century England and America. Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press, 1987.
15. Ruggles, Steven, and Sobek, Matthew. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series IPUMS-95 version 1.0. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota, Dept. History, Soc. History Res. Lab., 1995.
16. Schorr, Alvin L. Filial Responsibility in the Modern American Family: An Evaluation of Current Practice of Filial Responsibility in the United States and the Relationship to It of Social Security Programs. Washington: Dept. Health, Education, and Welfare, Soc. Security Admin., Div. Program Res., 1960.
17. Schwartz, Saul; Danziger, Sheldon; and Smolensky, Eugene. "The Choice of Living Arrangements by the Elderly." In Retirement and Economic Behavior, edited by Henry J. Aaron and Gary Burtless. Washington: Brookings Inst., 1984.
18. Smith, Daniel Scott. "Life Course, Norms, and the Family System of Older Americans in 1900." J. Family Hist. 4 (Summer 1979): 285-98.
19. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975.
20. _. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1994. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1994.
21. U.S. Bureau of Pensions. Report of the Commissioner of Pensions. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.
22. Wolf, Douglas A. "Household Patterns of Older Women: Some International Comparisons." Res. on Aging 12 (December 1990): 463-86.
23. _. "The Elderly and Their Kin: Patterns of Availability and Access." In Demography of Aging, edited by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston. Washington: Nat. Acad. Press, 1994.