@article{243eddfbd0bf4a649ecc0ff44ab6e541,
title = "The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up",
abstract = "“Doubling up” (sharing living arrangements) with family and friends is one way in which individuals and families can cope with job loss, but relatively little research has examined the extent to which people use coresidence to weather a spell of unemployment. This project uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to provide evidence on the relationship between household composition and unemployment across working ages, focusing on differences in behavior by educational attainment. Using the SIPP panels, I find that individuals who become unemployed are three times more likely to move in with other people. Moving into shared living arrangements in response to unemployment is not evenly spread across the distribution of educational attainment: it is most prevalent among individuals with less than a high school diploma and those with at least some college.",
keywords = "Living arrangements, Unemployment",
author = "Wiemers, {Emily E.}",
note = "Funding Information: This project was supported by the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, using funds received from the U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division through contract number 50YABC266059/TO002. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely mine and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of the National Poverty Center or of any agency of the Federal government. The research presented in this article benefitted from the resources provided by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, and I am grateful for funding from the National Institute on Aging through Grant AG000221-17. For many helpful comments and suggestions, I thank the anonymous reviewers as well as Charles Brown, Sheldon Danzinger, V. Joseph Hotz, David Johnson, Kathleen McGarry, and Robert Schoeni; and Martha Stinson and Luke Shaefer for their assistance with SIPP data. All errors are my own. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Population Association of America.",
year = "2014",
month = dec,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/s13524-014-0347-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "2155--2178",
journal = "Demography",
issn = "0070-3370",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}