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| Living arrangements and intergenerational monetary transfers of older Chinese | | Author(s) | Taichang Chen, George W Leeson, Changping Liu |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 9, October 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1798-1823 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Assets [elderly] ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Family relationships ; Quantitative studies ; China. |
| Annotation | Previous studies show a decline in parent-child co-residence among older people. This study examined the effect of living away from adult children on upward intergenerational monetary transfers. It analyses data from the Follow-up Sampling Survey of the Aged Population in Urban/Rural China (FUSSAPUR), a 2006 survey of 19,947 people aged 60 and over selected from 20 provinces in China. Results indicate that older people who were not co-residing but had at least one adult child living in another community or village within the city or county were likely to receive more intergenerational monetary transfers than those who were living with children. Living close to children, rather than co-residing with them, might be the primary living arrangement for older Chinese people in the foreseeable future. The findings have important programme and policy implications for countries such as China, which has the largest population older people in the world. There is a strong need for the development of specific public care support systems focused on older people in general, and older people in rural areas in particular. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171017003 A |
| Classmark | K7: JD: SR: SS: DS:SJ: 3DQ: 7DC |
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