The effect of coresidence with an adult child on depressive symptoms among older widowed women in South Korea: an instrumental variables estimation.

@article{Do2012TheEO,
  title={The effect of coresidence with an adult child on depressive symptoms among older widowed women in South Korea: an instrumental variables estimation.},
  author={Young Kyung Do and Chetna Malhotra},
  journal={The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences},
  year={2012},
  volume={67 3},
  pages={
          384-91
        }
}
  • Y. Do, C. Malhotra
  • Published 1 May 2012
  • Psychology
  • The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
OBJECTIVES To estimate the causal effect of coresidence with an adult child on depressive symptoms among older widowed women in South Korea. METHOD Data from the first (2006) and second (2008) waves of the Korea Longitudinal Study of Ageing were used. The analysis was restricted to widowed women aged ≥65 years with at least one living child (N = 2,446). We used an instrumental variables (IVs) estimation exploiting two child characteristics as IVs (the number of sons and whether the eldest… 
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