Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration
By J. Giles, Dewen Wang, Changbao Zhao. 2010
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This paper shows that the family continues to be an important source of support for the rural elderly, particularly the rural elderly over 70 years of age. Decline in likelihood of co-residence with, or in close proximity to, adult children raises the possibility that China’s rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in-kind instrumental care. While descriptive evidence on net-financial transfers suggests that elderly with migrant children will receive similar levels of financial transfers as those without migrant children, the predicted variance associated with these transfers implies a higher risk that elderly who have migrant children could fall into poverty. Reducing the risk of low incomes among the elderly is one important motive for new rural pension initiatives supported by China’s government, which are scheduled to be expanded to cover all rural counties by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan in 2016.
Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China (2008, unknown): “To the extent that they invest at home, migrants are purchasing housing and supporting the living standards of older relatives (Giles et al., 2010).”
- Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “The first issue concerns the well-being of the family members left-behind (de Brauw and Mu 2012; Mu and van de Walle 2011; de Brauw et al. 2013; Chang et al. 2011; Giles et al. 2010).”
- The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme (2016, background): “25 informal care provided by spouses or children (especially sons) is still the most important source of care for the rural elderly (Giles et al., 2010; Li et al., 2013).”