Parental Health Penalty on Adult Children's Employment: Gender Difference and Long-Term Consequence

Jiayi Wen () and Haili Huang
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Haili Huang: Xiamen University

No 2023-08-18, Working Papers from Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University

Abstract: This paper examines the long-term gender-specific impacts of parental health shocks on adult children's employment in China. We build up an inter-temporal cooperative framework to analyze household work decisions in response to parental health deterioration. Then employing an event-study approach, we establish a causal link between parental health shocks and a notable decline in female employment rates. Male employment, however, remains largely unaffected. This negative impact shows no abatement up to eight years that are observable by the sample. These findings indicate the consequence of ``growing old before getting rich'' for developing countries.

Keywords: Gender Inequality; Female Labor Supply; Health Shock; Aging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 I10 J22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08-18
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Journal Article: Parental health penalty on adult children’s employment: Gender differences and long-term consequences (2024)
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