Preface
Acknowledgments
I Intergenerational Ties: Contemporary Trends and Contexts
1 Intergenerational Ties: Theories, Trends, and Challenges Suzanne M. Bianchi, V. Joseph Hotz, Kathleen McGarry, and Judith A. Seltzer
2 Are We Asking the Right Questions on Intergenerational Ties? Rebeca Wong
3 Intergenerational Ties: What Can Be Gained from an International Perspective? Francesco C. Billari and Aart C. Liefbroer 4 Developing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Study Intergenerational Relationships Melissa Hardy
II Explaining Change and Variation in Intergenerational Caregiving and Exchanges
5 Intergenerational Caregiving and Exchange: Economic and Evolutionary Approaches Donald Cox
6 Do Bioevolutionary Forces Shape Intergenerational Transfers? Detecting Evidence in Contemporary Survey Data Merril Silverstein
7 The Problem of Predictive Promiscuity in Deductive Applications of Evolutionary Reasoning to Intergenerational Transfers: Three Cautionary Tales Jeremy Freese
8 Beyond Theory: Individual Differences in Exchanges between Older Parents and Their Children Steven H. Zarit
III The Nature of Negotiations within Generations
9 Intergenerational Support, Care, and Relationship Quality in Later Life: Exploring Within-Family Differences Karl Pillemer and J. Jill Suitor
10 Unanticipated Lives: Inter- and Intragenerational Relationships in Families with Children with Disabilities Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Jan S. Greenberg, Gael I. Orsmond, Julie Lounds Taylor, and Matthew J. Smith
11 Families as Nonshared Environments for Siblings Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter
12 Family Bargaining and Long-Term Care of the Disabled ElderlyLiliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, and Barbara S. Schone
IV Private and Public Provision in Care of Kin: Who Feels an Obligation for Whom?
13 The Distribution of ObligationsSteven L. Nock, Paul W. Kingston, and Laura M. Holian
14 Race and Ethnic Influences on Normative Beliefs and Attitudes toward Provision of Family CareJames Jackson, Toni C. Antonucci, Edna E. Brown, Olav Svein Daatland, and Besangie Sellars
15 Between the Motion and the Act: Psychological Perspectives on the Distribution of Obligations Adam Davey
16 Interpreting Norms of Obligation as Planner’s Preferences for Distributional Justice: A Formal Economic Model Robert J. Willis
17 Expanding the Horizon: New Directions for the Study of Intergenerational Care and Exchange Cassandra Rasmussen Dorius and Laura Wray-Lake
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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