Long-term concepts of parent-child reciprocity assume that the amount of support given and received is only balanced in a eneralizedfashion over the life course. We argue thatreciprocity in parent-child relationships also operates in the short term. Our analysis of short-term reciprocity focuseson concurrent exchange in its main upward and downward currencies, time and money. Fixed-effects models with data from SHARE (N= 8,816 dyads) revealedthat within a family, parents gavefinancial transfers to those children who supportedthem with time transfers of help and care. Reciprocal patterns mergedmost clearly if parents werehighly dependent, receivedintense support,and hadsufficient financial opportunities to reciprocate. We conclude that short-term reciprocity eases the burden oflate parent-child relationships.
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