Old age pension and intergenerational living arrangements: a regression discontinuity design.

ABSTRACT: China launched a pension program for rural residents in 2009, now covering more than 300 million Chinese. This program offers a unique setting for studying the ageing population, given the rapidity of China's population ageing, traditions of filial piety and co-residence, decreasing number of children, and dearth of formal social security, at a relatively low income level. This paper examines whether receipt of the old-age pension payment equips elderly parents and their adult children to live apart and whether parents substitute children's time involved in instrumental support to them with service consumption. Employing a regression discontinuity design to a primary longitudinal survey conducted in Guizhou province of China, this paper overcomes challenges in the literature that household

SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5642942 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature