What makes adult children live with their parents? This paper examines the extent to which individual and family characteristics are associated with co-residence decisions between adult children and their parents. Using Mexico’s 2011 Social Mobility Survey (EMOVI) retrospective data and focusing on the young adult population in Mexico, we test empirically what parent and adult children characteristics correlate with co-residence status. Marginal effects from a probit regression model show that, after controlling for individual characteristics and retrospective family conditions, adult children’s education and employment status seem to be correlated with co-residence status, although only for males. Marital status, whether or not they have children, and retrospective parents’ home ownership are all correlated with co-residence status. The probability of adult male children staying at their parents’ home is reduced when the father has higher levels of education, while increased when the mother has higher levels of education.

是什么让成年子女与父母同住？本文研究了成年子女与其父母之间共同居住的决定与个人和家庭特征相关的程度。使用墨西哥的2011年社会流动性调查（EMOVI）回顾性数据，并以墨西哥的年轻成年人口为重点，我们通过经验检验了父母和成年子女的特征与共同居住状态之间的关系。概率回归模型的边际效应表明，在控制了个人特征和回顾性家庭条件之后，成年子女的教育和就业状况似乎与同居状况相关，尽管只有男性。婚姻状况，是否有孩子以及追溯父母的房屋所有权都与同居状况相关。当父亲受教育程度较高时，成年男性儿童留在父母家中的可能性降低，而母亲受教育程度较高时，成年男性儿童留在父母家中的可能性降低。