IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/injoed/v116y2025ics0738059325000951.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The power of education: The intergenerational impact of children’s education on the poverty of Chinese older adults

Author

Listed:
  • Yu, Shuang
  • Guo, Qiuyan
  • Liang, Yinhe

Abstract

This paper estimates the causal impact of adult children’s education on parental multidimensional poverty to evaluate the intergenerational poverty reduction effect. We exploit exogenous variation in the temporal and geographical impacts of the 1986 Compulsory Schooling Laws in China to construct an instrumental variable. We find that increases in children’s education significantly reduce the incidence of parental multidimensional poverty. The effects are stronger for fathers and parents who live in rural areas and have children with high income. Further evidence discusses the potential channels, such as intergenerational support, financial behaviors, and social networks.

Suggested Citation

  • Yu, Shuang & Guo, Qiuyan & Liang, Yinhe, 2025. "The power of education: The intergenerational impact of children’s education on the poverty of Chinese older adults," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:116:y:2025:i:c:s0738059325000951
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103297
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059325000951
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103297?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:116:y:2025:i:c:s0738059325000951. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-educational-development .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.