This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children's mobility characteristics. Our main result is that the mobility of young adults crucially depends on the presence of a sibling. Siblings compete in location and employment decisions to direct parental care decisions towards their preferred outcome. Only children are ...
This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic ...
Session Abstracts: Lifespan theories of aging highlight the importance normative and non-normative life events have on how individuals function, develop, and age. In later adulthood, events such as the onset of severe illness or loss of a spouse may change both how individuals negotiate their daily lives and how they age. In this paper, we use a collection of natural experiments embedded in longitudinal ...