The Impact of China's New Rural Pension Program on Elderly Labor, Grandchild Care, and Old-Age Support

Qin Li, Yafeng Wang and Yaohui Zhao

Feminist Economics, 2018, vol. 24, issue 2, 265-287

Abstract: This study examines how a social pension program changes paid work patterns and expectations about the source of future financial support for the elderly in China. Using the 2011 and 2013 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the study finds that the New Rural Pension Program (NRPP) reduced the hours of farmwork and increased the hours of grandchild care among elderly rural men; and both elderly women and men reported less expected reliance on adult children for financial support when they become infirm. These differential effects probably occur because the size of the pension benefit is very small and because of previous gender differences in farmwork and grandchild care. Additionally, the study shows that adult children reduced out-migration and increased their hours spent in farming activities, indicating that the effect of the NRPP has spilled over to younger members of the household.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1421768

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