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Intergenerational support and subjective health of older people in rural China
— a gender-based longitudinal study | | Author(s) | Shuzhuo Li, Lu Song, Marcus W Feldman |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 28, no 2, June 2009 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, June 2009 |
| Pages | pp 81-86 |
| Source | http://www.cota.org.au / http://www.blackwellpublishingasia.com |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Family relationships ; Assets [elderly] ; Income [older people] ; Rural areas ; Longitudinal surveys ; China. |
| Annotation | Using data from three waves of the survey, "Well-being of the elderly in Anhui province, China", conducted in 2001, 2003 and 2006, respectively, this study employs random effect logit models for men and women separately, in order to examine the effect of intergenerational exchanges on subjective health of Chinese rural older people. While an increase in instrumental support from children to older people is associated with the deterioration in older men's subjective health, financial support from older people to children is associated with improvement in the formers' subjective health. Although an increase in instrumental support from older people to children, and mutual emotional support is associated with improved subjective health of older women, financial support from children to older women has a negative effect on the latter's subjective health. Reciprocal intergenerational transfers contribute to improvement in older people's subjective health, while increased support through demand-based transfers appears to result in deterioration of their health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100106201 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: CC: DS:SJ: JD: JF: RL: 3J: 7DC |
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