Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China
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- Xiaoyan Lei & John Strauss & Meng Tian & Yaohui Zhao, 2011.
"Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China Evidence from CHARLS,"
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WR-866, RAND Corporation.
- Lei, Xiaoyan & Strauss, John & Tian, Meng & Zhao, Yaohui, 2011. "Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS," IZA Discussion Papers 6249, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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rural China; aging; migration; health;JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2006-10-28 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ALL-2006-10-28 (All new papers)
- NEP-CNA-2006-10-28 (China)
- NEP-DEV-2006-10-28 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2006-10-28 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2006-10-28 (South East Asia)
- NEP-TRA-2006-10-28 (Transition Economics)
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