The Effects of Adult Children’s Caregiving onthe Health Status of Their Elderly Parents: Protection or Selection?

Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue , 2008, Pages 251-268

  Zhang, Zhen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult children; Care provision; Caregiving; China; Dyadic data; Elder parents; Family support; Intraclass correlation; Joint model; Need based support; Protection; Selection; Self rated health; Social support; Survey of Family Dynamics of the Elderly s Children; Unobserved heterogeneity; Unobserved propensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878860943     PISSN: 18772560     EISSN: 22151990     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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