子女生活照料对老年人健康的影响:促进还是选择

The Effect of Caregiving from Children on Health Status of the Elderly: Protection or Selection

文章利用2002年在中国8个省份进行的父母-子女配对调查数据,应用联合方程模型,对这两种效应同时进行分析。分析结果显示,子女生活照料对老年人健康具有显著的选择效应和促进效应。在选择效应未被分离时,促进效应被严重误估。在分离选择效应以后,子女向老年人提供的生活照料的促进效应才得以凸现。

This study investigates the relationships between health status of older parents aged 65-105 and caregiving from their children. Due to the adverse self-selection among the elderly who receive caregiving, the protective effect of care-giving claimed in prior studies need to examine in-depth with consideration of this selection. A joint model of health status of older parents and caregiving from adult children is developed so as to "split" the two effects of caregiving. The model is applied to a dyadic data ...