Grandparents' Financial Contributions to Grandchildren in Rural China: The Role of Remittances, Household Structure, and Patrilineal Culture.
Grandparents' Financial Contributions to Grandchildren in Rural China: The Role of Remittances, Household Structure, and Patrilineal Culture.
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10.1093/geronb/gbz009
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发表时间：
2019-01
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M. Silverstein;Wencheng Zhang
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作者：
M. Silverstein;Wencheng Zhang
目的：本研究考察了中国农村地区祖父母为孙辈的利益进行货币转移的预测因素。预测因素包括与金融供应（从孙辈父母那里收到的汇款）、家庭需求（生活在隔代家庭）和父系文化（以儿子和孙子为目标）相关的家庭因素。方法利用2015年安徽省老年人纵向研究浪潮，对1633名父母家庭中831名祖父母对孙辈的经济转移进行研究。使用两部分随机效应回归来预测是否进行了转移以及转移的价值，假设发生了转移。结果祖父母对祖父母共同居住在跨代家庭的孙辈提供了更高的价值转移。遗传转移的可能性完全遵循男性血统，在只有孙子的家庭中，父母是长子的可能性最大。结果表明，经济、家庭和文化因素与祖父母的慷慨行为独立相关。我们得出的结论是，在中国农村，祖父母对孙辈的经济贡献是由高度流动的社会中的家庭需求、代际相互依存以及持续存在的父系性别制度（达到孙辈的水平）所决定的。
Objectives This investigation examined predictors of monetary transfers made by grandparents for the benefit of their grandchildren in rural China. Predictors included family factors related to financial supply (remittances received from the parents of grandchildren), household demand (living in a skipped-generation household) and patrilineal culture (targeting sons and grandsons). Method The 2015 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province was used to study financial transfers made by 831 grandparents to grandchildren in the families of 1,633 parents. Two-part random-effects regression was used to predict whether a transfer was made and the value of transfers, given that one occurred. Results Grandparents provided higher value transfers to grandchildren whose parents provided greater remittances and with whom they co-resided in skipped-generation households. The likelihood of making a transfer fully followed the male-lineage, and was greatest to grandson-only families in which parents were first-born sons. Discussion Results show that economic, household, and cultural factors are independently associated with the largesse of grandparents. We conclude that grandparents' economic contributions to grandchildren in rural China are shaped by family demands in a highly mobile society, intergenerational interdependence, and a persistent patrilineal gender system that reaches to the level of grandchildren.