子女婚育年龄推迟对父母生活满意度的影响

Influence of Delay in Marriage and Childbearing Age on Parents’ Life Satisfaction

受中国的传统文化影响,子女婚育被很多父母视为自身的重要责任。在晚婚晚育现象愈加普遍的现状下,子女的婚育年龄推迟也对父母的生活满意度产生了重要影响。文章使用中国健康与养老追踪调查2018年的数据,基于Ⅳ-Oprobit模型实证检验了子女晚婚晚育对父母生活满意度的影响,发现子女晚婚晚育对父母的生活满意度有显著的负面影响,父母生活满意度受儿子晚育的影响更为显著;同时,子女晚婚晚育对父母生活满意度的影响存在城乡异质性,对农村父母生活满意度的影响更为显著。

Due to the deep-rooted Chinese traditional family culture,children’s marriage and childbearing are regarded by parents as their important responsibilities.Under the current situation that the phenomenon of late marriage and late childbearing is becoming more and more common,their first marriage and childbearing are of great significance to parents and may have an important impact on parents’ life satisfaction.Using the baseline survey data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2018,this paper empirically tests the impact of children’s late marriage and late childbirth on parents’ life satisfaction based on IV-Oprobit method.It finds that children’s late marriage and late childbearing have a significant negative impact on parents’ life satisfaction.Parents’ life satisfaction is more significantly affected by sons’ late childbearing.Meanwhile,there are urban-rural heterogeneity in the impact of children’s late marriage and late childbearing on parents’ life satisfaction,and the impact on rural parents’ life satisfaction is more significant.