Shared caregiving responsibilities of adult siblings with elderly parents

By Tennille J. Checkovich, S. Stern. 2002

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The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children (2014, background): “In the majority of families, however, a child who acts as primary provider to an aging parent has siblings who are largely exempted from caregiving responsibilities (Checkovich & Stern, 2002).”
Dynamic Wage and Employment Effects of Elder Parent Care (2015, background): “9I abstract from allowing utility from caregiving to vary with whether the woman has a brother since Engers and Stern (2002), Checkovich and Stern (2002), Byrne et al. (2009) and several others find that all else equal, daughters are significantly more likely than sons to provide care.”
Gender Differences in Adult Children's Support of Their Parents in Taiwan (2003, background): “Second, children’s decisions about providing support to their parents have been shown to depend on their previous history of support provision as well as on current and previous assistance provided by their siblings ( Checkovich & Stern 2002 ).”
Consequences of Parental Divorce for Adult Children’s Support of Their Frail Parents (2008, background): “It has been shown that the number of children in a family affects parents’ receipt of assistance (Checkovich & Stern, 2002; Spitze & Logan, 1990).”
Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women (2014, unknown): “(5) where the denominator is the proportion of compliers, as shown by Frölich and Melly (2007).”