Daughter's college completion and parents' psychosocial wellbeing: quasi-experimental evidence from South Korea.

ABSTRACT: The educational achievements of offspring are reported to be positively associated with the wellbeing of older parents, although observational research on this topic is likely subject to residual confounding bias. We use data on over 7,000 older adults who responded to the Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging (KLoSA), a population-based study that captures data on the wellbeing and family dynamics of adults 45 years along with detailed rosters of respondents' living children, including their age and educational attainment. We use these rosters to characterize offspring exposure to a 1993 higher education reform that increased college enrollment rates, particularly for young women, by over 45 percentage points over a decade. Prior research has leveraged this reform to identify the causal effe

SUBMITTER: Lee AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12314392 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature