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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" campaign extends life expectancy : a study of intergenerational support for elderly parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495580
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Child gender and subjective well-being of older parents in China
Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023
life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545882
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Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827336
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Ageing, health, loneliness and wellbeing
Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; Piracha, Matloob; … - 2020
Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256238
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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection
Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023
legacy of sex preference in fertility. We employ nationally representative data to examine the association between old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250292
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Happiness in Old Age : The Daughter Connection
Sukontamarn, Pataporn; Asadullah, M. Niaz; … - 2023
legacy of sex preference in fertility. We employ nationally representative data to examine the association between old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351199
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How China's "later, longer, fewer" campaign extends life expectancy : a study of intergenerational support for elderly parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to … the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal … Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483940
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Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Calvi, Rossella - 2018
Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917579
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Ageing and consumer spending : some preliminary findings from India and China
Deb, Surajit - 2016
The health care for elderly population remains an important concern in the two populated economies of India and China …. This paper provides an attempt to determine the extent of population aging in India and China and subsequently determine … differences in the levels of population aging in both India and China. The results of our cross-sectional regressions indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543445
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Aging in the social space
Tomczyk, Łukasz; Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2015
A publication called Aging in the Social Space is a compilation of studies, which deal with theoretical understanding and empirical solutions, learning about problem spheres, specifying content parallels of social, legal, economic, moral and ethical views on senior issues in society, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420364