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Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France

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  • Claire Scodellaro

    (2L2S - Laboratoire Lorrain de Sciences Sociales - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Myriam Khlat

    (INED - Institut national d'études démographiques)

  • Florence Jusot

    (LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the subjects aged 25–49 years reported having received financial transfers during the last 12 months. Subjects who had achieved intergenerational upward mobility as well as those who had remained in the upper class were more likely to receive transfers, suggesting that parents rewarded those of their children who achieved most social success. After adjusting for a wide range of socio-demographic factors, subjects who had been given large transfers were much more likely to report very good health than subjects who had not been given anything. Findings were interpreted within the framework of sociological research on intergenerational transfers and that of lifecourse epidemiology.

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  • Claire Scodellaro & Myriam Khlat & Florence Jusot, 2012. "Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France," Post-Print hal-01593725, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01593725
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.04.042
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    1. Pearl A. Dykstra & Christoph Bühler & Tineke Fokkema & Valentina Hlebec & Gregor Petrič & Rok Platinovšek & Tina Kogovšek, 2016. "Social network indices in the Generations and Gender Survey," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 34(35), pages 995-1036.
    2. Solveig A. Cunningham & Gloria L. Beckles & Jannie Nielsen, 2022. "Declines in Health and Support Between Parents and Adult Children: Insights from Diabetes," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 41(4), pages 1699-1723, August.
    3. Ong, Rachel & Nguyen, Toan & Kendall, Garth, 2018. "The impact of intergenerational financial transfers on health and wellbeing outcomes: A longitudinal study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 179-186.

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