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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 …
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Leasing by small enterprises
Neuberger, Doris; Räthke-Döppner, Solvig - 2012
Using internal data of a leasing company in Germany, we examine the determinants of the probability and use of leasing by small firms. We find that small and young firms are likely to be constrained on the leasing market but use leasing to increase their debt capacity. Beyond contract- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319296
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement: Regional variation across Europe
Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019
Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001146
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The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Yamamura, Eiji; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our expectations, we find that maternal grandmothers have...
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Social Identity and Depression Among the Elderly: Evidence from India
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2024
The paper examines the prevalence of depression and clinical depression among the elderly in India across groups with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632150
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‘More Children, More Happiness?’: New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019
the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least … causal evidence of the impact of fertility on elderly parents’ SWB from a developing economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027851
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Ageing and mobility in Germany: are women taking the fast lane?
Kalinowska, Dominika; Kunert, Uwe - 2009
Results from travel demand research in many countries show that - on average - women are less mobile and have different mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males and females. Moreover, in some countries results...
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Modeling eldercare by children and children-in-law: The role of marriage institutions
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2017
Western countries and between two Indian regions. Daughters-in-law in the rural North of India provide more eldercare than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852980
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352240