Sons, Daughters, and Intergenerational Support in Taiwan

Lee, Yean-Ju; Parish, William L.; Willis, Robert J.

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“…Remittances are also higher in (iii) the presence of other migrants from the same household, as migrants use these transfers to compete for inheritances (de la Briere et al 2002;Hoddinott 1994;Lucas and Stark 1985;VanWey 2004). Similar to the altruistic model, the exchange model predicts that remittances increase with (iv) the number of dependents in households, but attributes this pattern to a payment for dependents' care rather than migrants' altruistic inclinations (Lee, Parish and Willis 1994). Also consistent with the altruistic model, the exchange model expects remittances to increase with (v) migrants' income, but to decrease with (vi) migrants' distance to the origin.…”

Section: Overview Of the Empirical Predictions Of Remittance Theoriesmentioning

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An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Prior work has modeled individuals' migration and remittance behavior separately, and reported mixed empirical support for various remittance motivations. This study offers an integrated approach, and considers migration as a mechanism for selection in a censored probit model of remittance behavior. This approach leads to different conclusions about the determinants of remittance behavior in the Thai internal migration setting. To the extent that these determinants capture different remittance motivations, as prior research has presumed, the analysis also provides varying support for these motivations. These results suggest that migration and remittance behavior are interrelated, and it is crucial for an analysis of remittance behavior to control for the selectivity of migration.

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Section: Overview Of the Empirical Predictions Of Remittance Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 97%

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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“…In terms of coresidence, Chu and colleagues (2011) found that children's filial attitude had a positive association with patrilocal coresidence in Taiwan but not in Zhejiang, Fujian or Shanghai. In our paper, we test the following hypothesis: Introduced by Becker (1974) and expanded by other researchers (Lee, Parish, & Willis, 1994;Hermalin, 2002;Zimmer & Kwong, 2003), the altruism perspective assumes that all members of the family care about their own and each family member's welfare. As a collective, the family acts to maximize resources and then distribute them efficiently and equitably to best ensure each family member's well-being (Zimmer, 2005).…”

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“…For example, studies have found that elderly Chinese parents are more likely to receive personal care and monetary support from their adult children if they have maintained strong bonds with them by taking care of grandchildren, doing household chores, and providing financial help (Chen, 2003;Lin et al, 2003;Silverstein, Cong, & Li, 2007). Other studies found that in several Asian countries, elderly parents who had provided schooling opportunities and grandchild care or contributed in other ways to their children's household were more likely to receive money from their children than parents who had not done so (e.g., Lillard & Willis, 1997;Lee et al, 1994 The Modernization Perspective. The modernization perspective suggests that attitudes toward coresidence may shift when societies experience rapid economic development.…”

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Coresidence With Elderly Parents in Contemporary China: The Role of Filial Piety, Reciprocity, Socioeconomic Resources, and Parental Needs

Zhang

Luo

2014

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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This paper examines how adult children's expressed filial piety, receipt of help from parents, socioeconomic resources, and parents' needs are associated with the likelihood of parent-child coresidence in contemporary China. Drawing on the 2002 wave of the Chinese Survey of Family Dynamics and the 2002 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we used logistic regression to analyze correlates of coresidence with parents of 3,938 married adult children, aged 35 to 65. Results show that the stronger the filial piety expressed by adult children, the higher their likelihood of coresiding with their parents. Married adult children are also more likely to coreside with elderly parents who have provided intensive grandchild care and financial support or with those who need financial, physical, and emotional support. However, adult children who own homes are significantly less likely to live with their parents than are those who do not. These findings suggest that coresidence in contemporary China is influenced not only by parents' needs but also by children's values, socioeconomic resources, and past receipt of parental help. Coresidence with Elderly Parents in Contemporary China3

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“…Although there are increasingly state-funded institutions to provide support for the aged, it is still very much expected that children personally care for their parents and provide financial assistance (Kao & Stuifbergen, 1999). Sons, and especially the oldest ones, provide most of the various types of support, but daughters will do so if sons are not able to (Lee, Parish, & Willis, 1994).…”

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Neuroendocrine biomarkers, social relations, and the cumulative costs of stress in Taiwan

Gersten

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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Allostatic load (AL) is thought to represent the physiological toll that builds up over the life course as a consequence of the body's response to stress. An important aim of this paper is to test this widely held -but little investigated -understanding of what AL represents. More specifically, using the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS), a nationally representative survey of Taiwan conducted in the year 2000, this paper scrutinizes the connection between stressful life histories and neuroendocrine allostatic load (NAL). The 2000 SEBAS is a cross-sectional survey with over 1,000 participants (of men and women) age 54-91 and contains both conventional social variables and a number of physiological measures. Stressful life histories are operationalized through the use of two sets of indicators: one set makes use of respondents' subjective interpretations of various life domains and the other makes use of non-subjective data about conditions that are expected to be stressful (e.g., widowhood, living alone, low education). NAL is an index of four neuroendocrine biomarkers (cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), epinephrine, norepinephrine) collected in blood and urine samples under resting, basal states.The major findings of this paper are twofold. First, there is little evidence to support the hypothesis that baseline levels of the neuroendocrine markers stem from stressful life histories. Second, report of current stress (among women only) is positively correlated with higher NAL levels. Taken together, these findings question whether the neuroendocrine markers of the AL construct reflect long-term processes over the life course. Indeed, evidence here suggests that the neuroendocrine markers may reflect the exact opposite -a transient state at the time of the study.

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Sons, Daughters, and Intergenerational Support in Taiwan

Cited by 269 publications

References 39 publications

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Coresidence With Elderly Parents in Contemporary China: The Role of Filial Piety, Reciprocity, Socioeconomic Resources, and Parental Needs

Neuroendocrine biomarkers, social relations, and the cumulative costs of stress in Taiwan

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