The Allocation of Resources in Intergenerational Households: Adult Children and Their Elderly Parents
The Allocation of Resources in Intergenerational Households: Adult Children and Their Elderly Parents
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家庭代际资源配置：成年子女及其年迈父母
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1997
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B. Schone
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L. Pezzin;B. Schone
对代际家庭的资源汇集进行了测试，以确定对老年人福利的潜在政策影响。根据1993年对70岁及以上社区居民进行的具有全国代表性的资产和健康动态调查，纳入了来自583个家庭的目前未婚老年人答卷人，这些家庭与他们的一名成年子女一起居住。家庭总非劳动收入和查尔兹的非劳动收入除了住房资产和房屋所有权的价值外，还被衡量。回归结果提供了强有力的证据表明，代际家庭的行为不符合共同偏好模型。在查尔兹控制下的收入对家庭内部分配有相当大的和统计上显著的影响。查尔兹非劳动收入的增加降低了查尔兹全职工作的可能性和提供父母照顾的可能性。随着查尔兹对资源的控制增加，更多的时间被分配给劳动力供应和父母照顾以外的活动。无论是收入变量有显着的影响，父母使用的正式照顾。查尔兹收入对家庭处方药需求有显著的正向影响。关于父母的牙科访问，虽然参数估计家庭总收入表现出预期的积极和显着的影响，查尔兹收入的系数是统计学上不显着的传统水平（p = 0.17）。拥有住房对查尔兹分配时间到市场工作有重大影响。两个模拟涉及家庭内部的资源控制转移，并提供额外的现金援助，符合条件的家庭表明，资源控制对劳动力供应和非正式护理有显着的影响。现金转移到共同居住的儿童可能会导致较低的总照顾比政策，直接提供额外的资源给父母。
Resource pooling in intergenerational households was tested to ascertain the potential policy implications for the welfare of elderly adults. Currently unmarried elderly respondents from a total of 583 households who resided with one of their adult children were included based on the Survey of Assets and Health Dynamics a nationally representative sample of community-resident persons aged 70 and older in 1993. Total household non-labor income and the childs non-labor income was measured in addition to the value of housing assets and home ownership. The regression results provided strong evidence that the intergenerational households do not behave in a way that is consistent with common-preference models. Income under the childs control had a sizable and statistically significant effect on intra-household allocation. Increases in the childs non-labor income decreased both the probability of the childs full-time work and the probability of providing parental care. As the childs control of resources increased more time was allocated to activities other than labor supply and parental care. Neither of the income variables had a significant impact on the parents use of formal care. The childs income had a significant positive effect on the households demand for prescription drugs for the parent. With respect to parental dental visits although the parameter estimate for total household income exhibited the expected positive and significant effect the coefficient on childs income was statistically insignificant at conventional levels (p = 0.17). Home ownership had a significant effect on the childs allocation of time to market work. Two simulations involving the shifting of resource control within the household and providing additional cash assistance to eligible families suggested that resource control has a significant impact on labor supply and informal care. Cash transfer to coresident children might result in lower total care than policies which provide additional resources directly to the parent.