The Effects of Adult Children’s Caregiving onthe Health Status of Their Elderly Parents: Protection or Selection?

Zhen Zhang ()
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Zhen Zhang: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Chapter Chapter 15 in Healthy Longevity in China, 2008, pp 251-268 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The objective of this chapter is to re-examine the protective and selective effects of children’s caregiving to their elderly parents. Although the protective effect is widely recognized, the selection of care provision necessitates a comprehensive investigation into elderly caregiving.We design a joint model to specify the two effects. The model is applied to dyadic data from two large-scale surveys conducted in China in 2002. We found that protection is seriously misestimated when selection is ignored. After having successfully identified the selective effect, care provision to the elderly is found to be far more beneficial than claimed in previous studies.

Keywords: Adult children; Caregiving; Care provision; China; Dyadic data; Elder parents; Family support; Intraclass correlation; Joint model; Need-based support; Protection; Selection; Self-rated-health; Social support; Survey of Family Dynamics of the Elderly’s Children; Unobserved heterogeneity; Unobserved propensity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_15

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