#12351. When Does It Matter? The Effect of Three-generational Household Arrangement on Children’s Well-Being across Developmental Stages

August 2026publication date
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Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
Recent social-demographic trends predict a growing importance of grandparents’ role in family wellbeing. Over the past years, the three-generational household arrangement has become more prevalent in western countries. However, the implications of three-generational household arrangements for children’s development are less known, particularly over children’s different ages. We examine whether a three-generational arrangement influences children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes and how these effects vary from early childhood to adolescence. Fixed effects regressions results reveal that three-generational household arrangement has a negative effect on children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes in early childhood (ages 3 and 5), and such arrangement matters less for children during middle childhood and adolescence (ages 7, 11, and 14). This study illustrates heterogeneous influences of multigenerational household arrangement on children’s wellbeing across different developmental stages and calls for more thorough research on various multigenerational interactions and mechanisms that may underly such changing patterns.
Keywords:
Child behavioral problem; Child cognitive ability; Developmental stage; Three-generational household arrangement

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