Offspring schooling associated with increased parental survival in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Investing in offspring's human capital has been suggested as an effective strategy for parents to improve their living conditions at older ages. A few studies have assessed the role of children's schooling in parental survival in high-income countries, but none have considered lower-resource settings with limited public wealth transfers and high adult mortality.

Methods

We followed 17,789 parents between January 2003 and August 2015 in a large population-based open cohort in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We used Cox proportional hazards models to investigate the association between offspring's schooling and time to parental death. We assessed the association separately by parental sex and for four cause of death groups.

Results

A one year increase in o

SUBMITTER: De Neve JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5322823 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature