Family Support and Elderly Well-being in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

LaFave, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s12126-016-9268-0

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“…Over half of elderly Chinese prefer intergenerational coresidence (Sereny and Gu, 2011). Given inadequate social welfare system (LaFave, 2016), 49% of Chinese over age 65 rely on their family (mostly their children) as the primary source of income (based on the author's calculation of the 2010 China Census). In contrast, most elderly Americans value independence and privacy (Streib, 1987).…”

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“…While support from children induces feelings of dependency among elderly American parents (Dean et al., 1990), Chinese parents take pride in receiving support from children (Li et al, 2009). Chinese parents rely on their children for old-age support due to the cultural tradition of filial piety and inadequate social welfare system (LaFave, 2016). Intergenerational net financial transfers flow from children to parents in China (Lei et al, 2015) but from parents to children in the U.S. (Swartz, 2009).…”

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Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China

Cheng

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Past research has shown that anticipated support, the belief that someone will provide support if needed, benefits health. Few studies considered whether the relationship between anticipated support and health depends on the source of such support. This project addresses this gap and examines how anticipated support from children is related to older parents' health and whether such support can be replaced by anticipated support from other relatives and friends. Ordered logit and negative binomial regression models with lagged health outcomes were estimated using nationally representative data from the 2010 and 2012 Health and Retirement Study and the 2011 and 2013 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Results suggest that anticipated support from children is related to older parents' better self-rated health and fewer depressive symptoms in both countries. In the U.S. where filial norms are relatively weak, anticipated support from others is no less important for health than anticipated support from children. However, in China where filial norms are relatively strong, parents anticipating support only from others are no different in health from those anticipating support from no one.

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Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China

Cheng

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…A home is both a practical place (for caregiving) and a symbolic space (in which one identifies with a family network). In this way, providing housing, either financially or in-kind, justifies the providers' rights to care and enables them to receive it (Logan et al 1998;LaFave 2016).…”

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Why women own less housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers

Deng

Elsinga

2018

J Hous and the Built Environ

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After three decades of housing reform in China, housing assets constitute a sizable share of family wealth but are distributed unevenly, as registered homeowners are predominantly male. This is partly because males generally have higher incomes than females and can therefore contribute more to the financing, but also because males receive more intergenerational transfers. On the basis of 31 in-depth interviews from Chongqing, this article seeks to answer two questions: (1) How and why does the gender of the recipient affect the negotiation of intergenerational transfers? and (2) What are young women's possibilities to accumulate housing assets? The research findings show that young women either ask their parents for help to secure housing assets before marriage or they attempt to co-own a home with their husbands after marriage. Women who do not succeed in either of these strategies do not accumulate housing assets and thereby risk their rights to the home if their marriage is dissolved.

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“…Economic theory predicts that intergenerational transfers decrease with recipients’ income if they are motivated by altruism [33,34], but increase with income if they are motivated by an exchange [35]. Altruistic intergenerational transfers occur when adult children care about their parents’ utility, whereas transfers motivated by an exchange are regarded as a form of repayment for previous investments by parents, or as a way to compensate parents for providing care to adult children [36]. Cox (1987) [21] found that private transfers are more likely motivated by altruism if the recipient’s income is low, while exchange as a motivation dominates at higher income levels [22].…”

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Who Are the Beneficiaries of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme? Sons, Daughters, or Parents?

Zhang

Luo

Robinson

2019

IJERPH

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y applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, this study investigates whether sons, daughters, or parents are the beneficiaries of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme. Using data drawn from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey, our results indicate that pension income crowds out approximately 27.9% of the monetary support from adult sons and decreases the likelihood that adult sons live with their parents by 6.5%. However, we do not find a significant effect of pension income on the likelihood that adult daughters live with their parents. In regards to the well-being of parents, which is measured by consumption and health outcomes, the results show that pension income increases food and non-food consumption by 16.3 and 15.1%, respectively, and improves the psychological health of the elderly. Accounting for the different effects of pension income for those with different income levels, our results show that the New Rural Pension Scheme only has a significant effect on the poor elderly.

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Family Support and Elderly Well-being in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China

Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China

Why women own less housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers

Who Are the Beneficiaries of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme? Sons, Daughters, or Parents?

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