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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? Are the Japanese any different?
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; … - 2016
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564951
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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?
Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2016
In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458795
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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123607
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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?
Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520566
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Inter Vivos Health Transfers: Final Days of Japanese Elderly Parents.
Maruyama, Shiko - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2012
The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on … parental health remains fairly inconclusive. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to estimate a reliable coresidence effect … and (2) to investigate why the coresidence effect can be negative. I argue that coresidence may worsen parental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618304
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Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?
Kim, Albert Young-Il; Lee, Jungmin - 2017
of coresidence during pregnancy. In this paper, we exploit quasi-natural variation in single motherhood from the moment … birth certificate dataset is unique in that it allows us to distinguish coresidence and legal marital status and further to … identify the duration of pregnancy period without a partner. Results show that although coresidence with the partner during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653320
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Boomerang College Kids: Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence
Albanesi, Stefania; Gihleb, Rania; Zhang, Ning - 2022
-parent decisions, in which coresidence improves college graduates' quality of job matches, we find that lower matched job arrival rates … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426356
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Living arrangements of the elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Strauss, John; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - 2011
Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially when public support is inadequate. However, using rich information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we find that the increasing trend in living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282322
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Does single motherhood hurt infant health among young mothers?
Kim, Young-il; Lee, Jungmin - 2017
of coresidence during pregnancy. In this paper, we exploit quasi-natural variation in single motherhood from the moment … birth certificate dataset is unique in that it allows us to distinguish coresidence and legal marital status and further to … identify the duration of pregnancy period without a partner. Results show that although coresidence with the partner during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621437
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Leaving home and housing prices. The experience of Italian youth emancipation
Modena, Francesca; Rondinelli, Concetta - Banca d'Italia - 2011
This paper provides an explanation for the postponement of youth emancipation in the Italian context mainly characterized by a sharp increase in both house and rent prices together with stagnant disposable income over the past decade. We first assemble a unique database related to the housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320173