PARENTS AS PUBLIC GOODS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM RURAL CHINA

de Brauw, Alan

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.20298

PARENTS AS PUBLIC GOODS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM RURAL CHINA

This paper attempts to explain why some elderly in rural China live alone in relative poverty while others live with their children and are relatively well-off. It develops a theoretical model of intergenerational transfers specific to rural China and tests among competing hypotheses using cross-sectional data collected in 2000.

Subject(s):

Institutional and Behavioral Economics

Issue Date:

2004

Publication Type:

Conference Paper/ Presentation

DOI and Other Identifiers:

10.22004/ag.econ.20298

Record Identifier:

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20298

PURL Identifier:

http://purl.umn.edu/20298