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Will the Elderly Benefit from Public Pension Programs in a Developing Country? Understanding the Effects of China's Public Pension Program Expansion on the Elderly's Intergenerational Transfers and Health Outcomes.

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正題名/作者:	Will the Elderly Benefit from Public Pension Programs in a Developing Country? Understanding the Effects of China's Public Pension Program Expansion on the Elderly's Intergenerational Transfers and Health Outcomes./
作者:	Zhang, Qian.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (164 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04B.
標題:	Public policy. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22617702click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781687942319

Will the Elderly Benefit from Public Pension Programs in a Developing Country? Understanding the Effects of China's Public Pension Program Expansion on the Elderly's Intergenerational Transfers and Health Outcomes.
Zhang, Qian.

Will the Elderly Benefit from Public Pension Programs in a Developing Country? Understanding the Effects of China's Public Pension Program Expansion on the Elderly's Intergenerational Transfers and Health Outcomes. - 1 online resource (164 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references

The rural public pension program expansion (New Rural Pension Scheme, NRPS) was initiated in 2009, aiming to provide income security for the growing population of rural older adults in China through universal coverage of old-age pension. Rural older adults aged 60 and over and not covered by employment pension programs became eligible to receive NRPS pension. Influenced by China's Confucian cultural tradition, adult children are expected to take care of their older parents, commonly in the form of intergenerational monetary, in-kind and time transfers, and in turn older adults may provide money and gifts to adult children and often take care of their grandchildren. The altruism model suggests that donors make intergenerational transfers to make recipients better off. Hence, the amount of intergenerational monetary transfers is expected to decrease in response to an increase in older adults' income due to pensions. On the other hand, the exchange model suggests that donors make intergenerational transfers in exchange for services provided by recipients. Because older adults may be less likely to provide household services after they receive a pension, the younger generation may need to provide more resources to maintain the flow of services provided by grandparents. Under the exchange model, the amount of intergenerational transfers is expected to increase as a response to an increase in older adults' income due to pensions. Previous research has found that in some developing countries, the altruism model applies to poor households while the exchange model applies to the non-poor. However, studies have not examined the impact of pensions on net intergenerational transfers for poor and non-poor older adults in China. Income increases due to the new pension could influence health by reducing underweight for some rural older adults in China as well as by affecting overweight adults, increasing their risk of obesity. Previous research found a non-monotonic relationship between non-work income and weight in developing countries. When below the ideal weight, individuals are expected to use the extra income to gain weight; while when above the ideal weight, individuals are expected to respond to additional income with attempts to lose weight. However, empirical research found mixed results for adults in developing countries. The study investigated the effects of receiving NRPS pension on net intergenerational transfers, including heterogeneous effects by household income, and on a health outcome, body mass index (BMI). For BMI, possible mediating effects of household food expenditures, smoking and drinking behaviors, and depression were examined. A monograph dissertation was conducted, using quantitative methods to analyze a nationally representative dataset CHARLS (China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey). Fixed effects and instrumental variable designs were employed to control for time-invariant characteristics and endogenous bias.Findings showed that respondents received significantly lower net intergenerational transfers from non-co-resident adult children upon receipt of NRPS pension, but this effect was driven by the decrease in net intergenerational transfers for low-income households. Receipt of the NRPS pension was associated with increased BMI, but this effect was statistically significant only for women, smokers, and drinkers. Receipt of the pension did not increase the risk of obesity, suggesting that the pension supported weight gains for older adults who were underweight. Smoking frequency was the only valid mediator; respondents smoked less frequently upon receipt of NRPS pension, which was associated with an increase in BMI. The study has implications for public pension policy in China and other developing countries. While public pension programs are intended to provide income security for older adults, the associated decrease in intergenerational transfers from adult children to older adults may counterbalance the additional income from pension, especially for poor families. The younger generation could benefit from enhanced economic security for their older parents and reduced financial burden of eldercare. This study should also reassure policy makers that poor health outcomes and habits (obesity, smoking, drinking, depression) for older adults' are unlikely to be worsened by extra pension income.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781687942319Subjects--Topical Terms:

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