Parents’ health and adult children’s subsequent working status: a perspective of intergenerational transfer and time allocation
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This paper frames how parents’ health problems may affect a child’s subsequent working status. Parental health problems occurring in their prime working years undermine an adult child’s resources and tend to affect the child’s preferences over time-allocations among leisure, market- and non-market-labor. Empirical applications in this paper focus on a situation with pervasive health problems, lack of social safety network, and a substantial gender gap in labor market return. Exploiting Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the period 1994–2004, empirical results indicate that a father’s poor health status is a significant predictor of lowering a daughter’s educational attainment and working probability during her subsequent, adulthood years.
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Choi, HwaJung
2011
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
32
3
493-507
1058-0476
10.1007/s10834-010-9240-1
861
