@article {6967,
	title = {Worker preferences, spousal coordination, and participation in an employer-sponsored pension plan},
	journal = {Research on Aging},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {287-316},
	publisher = {26},
	abstract = {Recent changes in the pension environment, such as the growth of defined contribution plans, place more responsibility on individuals for the accumulation of retirement resources and provide workers with an increasing array of pension-related choices and decisions. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine two instances where workers face such decisions - participation in an offered defined contribution plan and participation in a supplemental pension plan. The author examines the relationship between two largely unexplored predictors of pension participation - psychological motivators of saving and the influence of spouse{\textquoteright}s behavior. Individual preferences for planning and risk and measures of spouse{\textquoteright}s pension behavior are included in probit models predicting individual pension participation. Results reveal gender differences in the association between preferences and behavior and differences in the primary versus supplemental decision. They also suggest that spouses coordinate pension decisions and behave similarly within structural constraints.},
	keywords = {Adult children, Consumption and Savings, Pensions},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027503262476},
	author = {Kim Shuey}
}
@article {6874,
	title = {Assistance to Aging Parents and Parents-in-Law: Does lineage affect family allocation decisions?},
	journal = {Journal of Marriage and the Family},
	volume = {65},
	year = {2003},
	pages = {418-431},
	publisher = {65},
	abstract = {In this analysis we used data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine how, couples organize transfers of assistance to aging parents and whether the flow of assistance is structured by family lineage. We found evidence of a tradeoff between types of assistance and a unilineal pattern of assistance. Few couples provided both time and money, and few assisted parents and parents-in-law. The determinants of assistance varied by type of care, recipient, and patterns of parental survival. Couples were more responsive to the needs of the wife{\textquoteright}s parent(s) and were less likely to exclude her parents from care even tinder circumstances of competition. Controlling for resources, African American and Hispanic couples were consistently more likely to provide assistance.},
	keywords = {Adult children, Health Conditions and Status, Healthcare},
	doi = {10.2307/3600087},
	author = {Kim Shuey and Melissa A. Hardy}
}
@mastersthesis {6098,
	title = {Couples Approaching Retirement: The Organization of Pension Behavior within the Family},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001},
	school = {The Florida State University},
	abstract = {In this analysis I used Wave 1 of the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the utilization of pension opportunities intersects with family context. I examined how decisions about retirement savings are shaped by family structure and family dynamics. Structural explanations of pension opportunities take non-market factors such as family responsibilities into account only to the extent that they shape location in the labor market. However, like other decisions related to household resources and savings, many decisions regarding employer pensions occur within the context of the family and it is likely that they are influenced by the resources and behavior of other family members. This research is an initial attempt to incorporate spouse characteristics and household dynamics into explanations of pension behavior. The analyses show the importance of considering the interdependence of decision making among couple members when conducting analyses of financial behavior and pension participation. Results suggest that women, at least this cohort of women, are more influenced by their spouses than are men. Working women tended to coordinate pension decisions with their husbands in a manner that was consistent with or complimentary to the behavior of their husbands. This points to the importance of attending to the influence of the spouse on individual behavior, as well as gender differences in this influence, and the way in which power dynamics within the household filter the translation of individual preferences into individual behavior. The analyses also demonstrate the necessity of accounting for differences in individual preferences and "states of mind" in pension research, since preferences for planning and risk influenced pension participation. In addition, the analyses indicate that there are substantive reasons for making an analytic distinction between primary and supplemental participation. Results also show that the potential selection effects involved in modeling pension participation did not bias the estimates. Although the theoretical reasons for performing these corrections remain, little was gained analytically. In contrast, the analyses demonstrated the importance of acknowledging and correcting for the non-independence of observations when examining individual-level behavior with a sample that contains both members of a couple.},
	keywords = {Adult children, Demographics, End of life decisions, Pensions, Retirement Planning and Satisfaction},
	author = {Kim Shuey}
}
