The author examines the determinants of medical expenditures on the elderly in rural Pakistan households, scrutinizing in particular the dependence of such expenditures on the economic contribution of the elderly to household income. The results for older males are contrasted with those for...

This paper explains the negative correlation between the days of work reported by fathers in rural Pakistani households and the incomes earned by their co-resident adult sons, thereby contributing to research on the benefits from intergenerational co-residence. I find that the decline in...