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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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childhood are more likely to send their children to work. We also look at the effect of social norms on the parents' child labor … poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor, we choose to focus on the phenomenon that parents who worked during own … explanation for the phenomenon of poor societies with similar income levels that differ significantly in literacy rates and …
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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
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This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … wife's parents residing in the same household. As expected in a patrilineal society, the increase in support is realized by … the husband's parents through more visits and financial transfers. Supporting our findings of stronger social networks …
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