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Selection of children to provide care — the effect of earlier parental transfers
Author(s)	John C Henretta, Martha S Hill, Wei Li
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, special issue, May 1997
Pages	pp 110-119
Keywords	Children [offspring] as carers ; Gifts [elderly] ; Assets [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	The authors use the first wave of data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study to examine the effects of past parent-to-child financial transfer on selection of a child to provide assistance with basic personal care for unmarried parents. It was estimated a fixed-effects conditional logit model and found a positive and significant association between past financial transfers and a child's current helping behaviour. The coefficient of past financial transfers is in the direction hypothesised, and its magnitude is 80% as large as that of gender, a well-documented powerful predictor of parental caregiving. There appears to be substantial evidence that earlier parent-to-child financial gifts play a role in determining which child in the family will provide assistance. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-971125268 A
Classmark	P6:SS: JFG: JD: 3F: 7T
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