Beschreibung
Examines the issue of intergenerational transfers across a wide range of countriesAllows us to test the applicability of some of the theories developed on the basis of American data to other social, political and economic contextsExtends the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visitsThe chapters go beyond the study of traditional parent-child transfers
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Autorenportrait
InhaltsangabePreface. Acknowledgements. The Authors.- Introduction, Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Shripad Tuljapurkar.- Micro-level perspectives. Chapter 1: Substitution and Substitutability: The Effects of Kin Availability on Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi, Alexander A. Weinreb.- Chapter 2: Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers, C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Ruoh-rong Yu.- Chapter 3: Stability and Change in Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwan, I-Fen Lin, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, and Yu-Hsuan Lin.- Chapter 4: Demographic Events and the Timing of Monetary Transfers: Some Evidence from Germany, Sumon Kumar Bhaumik.- Chapter 5: Maternal Co-residence and Contact: Evidence from Cross-national Surveys, Judith Treas, and Philip N. Cohen.- Chapter 6: Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China, Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Xiaoyi Jin.- Micro-macro and Macro-level perspectives. Chapter 7: Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan, Cem Mete and T. Paul Schultz.- Chapter 8: Social Expenditures on Children and the Elderly in OECD Countries, 1980-1995: Shifting Allocations, Changing Needs, Janet C. Gornick.- Chapter 9: Consequences of Educational Change for the Burden of Chronic Health Problems in the Population, Mark D. Hayward, Eileen M. Crimmins and Zhenmei Zhang.- Chapter 10: Effects of Changing Age Structure and Intergenerational Transfers on Patterns of Consumption and Saving, Diane J. Macunovich.- Chapter 11: Some Intergenerational Transfer Implications of Birth Fluctuations, Robert Schoen and Stefan Jonsson.- Chapter 12: On Stochastic Generational Accounting, Juha M. Alho and Reijo Vanne.- Index.
