Mortality Decline and Chinese Family Structure Implications for Old Age Support

1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. S157-S168 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J.-C. Tu ◽  
J. Liang ◽  
S. Li
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Mortality Decline ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Old Age Support

scholarly journals WORRIES OF OLD-AGE SUPPORT FOR PARENTS AND THEMSELVES: VIEWS FROM OLDER BACHELORS IN RURAL CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S457-S457
Author(s):  
Ying Wang ◽  
Huijun Liu ◽  
Bei Wu ◽  
Yaolin Pei
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Ordered Logistic Regression ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parental Health Status

Abstract Due to China’s gender imbalance, it is estimated that more than 30 million adult males were unable to get married. The old-age support for older unmarried sons (so-called forced bachelors) and their parents faces a significant challenge. Using data from a survey in Central and Western rural China, the present study examined the impact of family structure and health status on the worries about old-age support for themselves and their parents from the perspective of older unmarried sons. The sample included 359 older unmarried sons with rural Hukou (housing registration) status. The age of he sample ranges from 28 to 51. The results showed that 52.64% and 54.8% of respondents were worried about their own and their parents’ old-age support, respectively. Ordered logistic regression showed that having a sister(s) was negatively related to worries about their own and parents’ old-age support. Those with living mothers had less worries than their counterparts, and those who had a brother(s) had less worries about their parents’ old age support. Moreover, having any brothers who were also older unmarried sons was positively related to worries about their own and parents’ old-age support. Older unmarried sons who had two frail old parents had more worries for their parents’ old-age support than those whose parents were physically independent. The study highlights the importance of family structure and parental health status as important factors in worries over old-age support in China.

Old age support in kind

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUTOSHI MIYAZAWA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Formal Care ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Transfer Policy ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model ◽  
Disincentive Effect ◽  
Inter Vivos Transfer

AbstractIt has been argued whether a transfer policy for elderly people should be in kind or in cash. This paper presents a rationale to answer the question in an endogenous growth model with a two-way intrafamily transfer in middle age, education for the child as an inter-vivos transfer, and informal parental care in exchange for a bequest. We have two analytical results. First, a transfer in cash, such as a public pension, prevents economic growth because a strategic behavior concerning caregiving generates a disincentive effect on education. Second, a transfer in kind, such as public formal care, promotes economic growth because the valuation of the service generates an additional benefit of education, which dominates the disincentive effect. Our results show that old age support should be in kind rather than in cash in the context of economic growth and also welfare if bequests are strategic.

Mortality Decline and Japanese Family Structure

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda G. Martin ◽  
Suzanne Culter
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Mortality Decline ◽  
Japanese Family

The Manipulation of Children’s Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children’s Human Capital

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (S2) ◽  
pp. S3-S30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Becker ◽  
Kevin M. Murphy ◽  
Jörg L. Spenkuch
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Old Age Support

Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas ◽  
Paul Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on one fundamental aspects of an ageing population — how to pay for old age, individually and collectively. It also presents a study of the history of old age support in the UK and US and concludes that despite the quite different beginnings of the public pension and social security systems, government policy in both countries has become similarly locked in to a set of institutional arrangements which were devised to respond to immediate social and economic problems, but which have acquired a rationale and a dynamic of their own.

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