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Financial transfers to husbands' and wives' elderly mothers in Mexico
— do couples exhibit preferential treatment by lineage? | | Author(s) | Claire Noël-Miller, Rania Tfaily |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 31, no 6, November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 611-637 |
| Source | http://roa.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Assets [elderly] ; Gifts [elderly] ; Children [offspring] ; Mother ; Family relationships ; Social surveys ; Mexico. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to contrast the likelihood that a husband's aged mother receives financial assistance from a couple with that of a wife's mother. Previous US-based research has documented a strong bias toward transfers to wives' parents. The authors aimed to extend this literature to Mexico, where financial help from adult children is a critical source of support for a rapidly ageing population lacking institutional assistance. The authors' approach to modelling competition between mothers accounted for the nature of their need. Based on data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), the results demonstrate that among mothers of similar financial need, a husband's mother is twice as likely to receive financial assistance as a wife's mother. In contrast, when faced with personal care needs, a wife's mother is disproportionately favoured. These results reflect gender differences in Mexican adult children's responsibility for family members' financial and physical well-being. The findings uncover new complexity in the patterns by which couples transfer money to parents of different lineage. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100225224 A |
| Classmark | JD: JFG: SS: SRM: DS:SJ: 3F: 7TY |
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