Time? Money? Both? The allocation of resources to older parents

Demography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-232

  Couch, Kenneth A ^b   Daly, Mary C ^b   Wolf, Douglas A ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033129530     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648110     Document Type: Article

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