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The impact of education and health heterogeneity on generational support ratios
— a cross-national comparison between Mexico and Korea | | Author(s) | Erika Arenas, Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel, Luis Rubalcava |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 9, October 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1924-1961 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Older women ; Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Education ; Policy ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Cross national surveys ; Mexico ; Korea. |
| Annotation | Policy makers are concerned about the socio-economic consequences of population ageing. Policies often rely on estimations of support ratios based solely on the population age structure. The authors estimate Generational Support Ratios (GSRs), considering health heterogeneity of the population age 60+ and education heterogeneity of their offspring. They explore the effect of a public policy that changes the education of a targeted sub-group of women when they are young on their health once they become older, taking into account changes in demographic processes (i.e. marriage, fertility, offspring's education). Yhey used the model presented by Kye et al for the Korean context and examine the Mexican context. Their paper has three objectives. First, by applying this framework to the Mexican context, they aim to find that improvements in women's education may mitigate the negative consequences of population ageing directly and indirectly through subsequent demographic behaviours that altogether affect GSRs. Second, by making a cross-national comparison between Korea and Mexico, they aim to quantify how policies of educational expansion have different impacts in contexts in which the population age 60+ have universal access to health care, compared to contexts in which access to health care is selective. Third, by comparing cross-nationally they aim to show how differences in family processes across countries alter the pathways through which improvements in education affect GSRs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171017008 A |
| Classmark | BD: BG: CC: V: QAD: P6:SS: 3K: 7TY: 7DK |
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