Living with Children and Economic Disadvantage Among Seniors

Lucie Schmidt; Lara Shore-Sheppard; Tara Watson

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.03

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 2 46-64

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.03

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Schmidt, Lucie, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson. 2025. “Living with Children and Economic Disadvantage Among Seniors.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(2): 46–64. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.03. The authors thank Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Seminar series participants and participants in the author’s conference for this volume for helpful feedback. Simran Kalkat and Agustin Aliaga provided excellent research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Lara Shore-Sheppard, at lshore@williams.edu, 24 Hopkins Hall Drive, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 01267, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Lucie Schmidt^a,
Lara Shore-Sheppard^b and
Tara Watson^c

^aRobert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College, United States
^bKimberly ’96 and Robert ’62 Henry Professor of Economics and dean of the faculty at Williams College, United States
^cDirector of the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity at the Brookings Institution, United States