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Family size and old-age wellbeing
— effects of the fertility transition in Mexico | | Author(s) | Carlos Diaz-Venegas, Joseph L Saenz, Rebeca Wong |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 3, March 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, March 2017 |
| Pages | pp 495-516 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | The Family ; Children [offspring] ; Demography ; Well being ; Quantitative studies ; Mexico. |
| Annotation | The present study aims to determine how family size affects psycho-social, economic and health well-being in old age differently across two cohorts with declining fertility. The data are from the ì2012 Mexican Health and Ageing Study (MHAS) including 13,102 respondents aged 50+. Poisson (standard and zero-inflated) and logistic regressions are used to model determinants of well-being in old age: psycho-social (depressive symptoms), economic (consumer durables and insurance) and health (chronic conditions). In the younger cohort, having fewer children is associated with fewer depressive symptoms and chronic conditions, and better economic well-being. For the older cohort, having fewer children is associated with lower economic well-being and higher odds of being uninsured. Lower fertility benefited the younger cohort (born after 1937), whereas the older cohort (born in ì1937 or earlier) benefited from lower fertility only in chronic conditions. Further research is needed to continue exploring the old-age effects of the fertility transition. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170217202 A |
| Classmark | SJ: SS: S8: D:F:5HH: 3DQ: 7TY |
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