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The impact of parental characteristics and contextual effects on returns to the parental home in Britain

The impact of parental characteristics and contextual effects on returns to the parental home in Britain
The impact of parental characteristics and contextual effects on returns to the parental home in Britain
This paper uses successive cohorts of rising 16 year olds followed up within the British Household Panel Study to examine the importance of parental resources and parental family structure on the likelihood of young adults returning to the parental home following an initial departure. We also examine whether local area effects such as urbanicity, housing or labour market factors are significant. Our analyses of individuals aged 18-24 indicate that although parental background and circumstances can contribute to young adults’ propensity to return home, this is far outweighed by the impact of the individual-level characteristics of the young adults themselves. Of particular importance in promoting returns to the parental home are experiencing a change in economic activity,especially moving out of full-time education into unemployment, and experiencing a partnership dissolution. Whilst local house prices are shown to be related to the propensity to return home for women, most contextual factors are found to have little effect for either men or women.
family structure, returning home, boomerang kids, parentalresources, young adult
2042-4116
29
ESRC Centre for Population Change
Berrington, Ann
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Stone, Juliet
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Falkingham, Jane
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Berrington, Ann
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Stone, Juliet
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Berrington, Ann, Stone, Juliet and Falkingham, Jane , McGowan, Teresa (ed.) (2013) The impact of parental characteristics and contextual effects on returns to the parental home in Britain (ESRC Centre for Population Change Working Paper Series, 29) Southampton, GB. ESRC Centre for Population Change 25pp.

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Abstract

This paper uses successive cohorts of rising 16 year olds followed up within the British Household Panel Study to examine the importance of parental resources and parental family structure on the likelihood of young adults returning to the parental home following an initial departure. We also examine whether local area effects such as urbanicity, housing or labour market factors are significant. Our analyses of individuals aged 18-24 indicate that although parental background and circumstances can contribute to young adults’ propensity to return home, this is far outweighed by the impact of the individual-level characteristics of the young adults themselves. Of particular importance in promoting returns to the parental home are experiencing a change in economic activity,especially moving out of full-time education into unemployment, and experiencing a partnership dissolution. Whilst local house prices are shown to be related to the propensity to return home for women, most contextual factors are found to have little effect for either men or women.

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Published date: January 2013
Keywords: family structure, returning home, boomerang kids, parentalresources, young adult
Organisations: Social Statistics & Demography, Centre for Population Change

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Local EPrints ID: 346896
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/346896
ISSN: 2042-4116
PURE UUID: f4ae3b06-db0d-42c6-8362-d5936d9a880c
ORCID for Ann Berrington: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-6668
ORCID for Jane Falkingham: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7135-5875
ORCID for Teresa McGowan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0002-9231-3743

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Date deposited: 04 Feb 2013 10:31
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:23

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Author: Ann Berrington ORCID iD
Author: Juliet Stone
Author: Jane Falkingham ORCID iD
Editor: Teresa McGowan ORCID iD

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