KIN, SAVING, AND HOUSEHOLDS OF THE ELDERLY

该项目将评估#年老年人的家庭模式。 十九世纪欧洲的老年替代策略 保障：与子女同居和积蓄。过去时 研究挑战了这样的观点，即多代家庭 在过去很常见。以前的研究表明，患有糖尿病的老年人 配偶或未婚子女往往仍是独立公司的负责人 家庭和一些历史学家，特别是彼得·拉斯利特，对这一角色提出了质疑 在提供养老保障方面，有更多的已婚子女。在十九号 世纪之争的经济和人口力量可能导致了共同的- 有已婚子女的父母住所增加或减少。一对一 另一方面，更高的收入和更多的储蓄会让父母变得更少 晚年依靠子女生活。另一方面，更高的工资水平 第二代本可以让他们更有能力应对 年迈的父母及其年幼子女的双重负担。样本： 老年人将从该市的人口登记中抽取 1833年和1866年比利时韦尔维耶。每个样品都将是 用了十到十五年的时间来重建家庭的变化 模式和动态。人口登记也使我们能够定位 曾经结婚的样本成员的子女，以及税务和遗嘱认证记录 将提供有关财富的信息。

This project will evaluate the household patterns of the elderly in nineteenth-century Europe in terms of alternative strategies for old age security: co-residence with children and accumulation of savings. Past research has challenged the view that multigeneration households were common in the past. Previous studies suggest that older persons with spouses or unmarried children tended to remain the heads of independent households, and some historians, notably Peter Laslett, question the role of married children in providing old age security. In the nineteenth century competing economic and demographic forces may have caused co- residence of parents with married children to increase or decrease. On one hand, higher incomes and more savings would have made parents less dependent on their children in old age. On the other hand, higher wages in the second generation could have made them more able to cope with the combined burden of elderly parents and their young children. Samples of the elderly will be drawn from population registers in the city of Verviers, Belgium for the years 1833 and 1866. Each sample will be followed for ten to fifteen years to reconstruct changes in household patterns and dynamics. The population registers also enable us to locate the children of ever-married sample members, and tax and probate records will provide information about wealth.