Child's gender, parental monetary investments and care of elderly parents in China

• Main Author: HO, Christine
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: son bias; parental investment; old age support; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2065; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3064/viewcontent/Son_Bias_and_Old_Age_Support.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Son biased investments are common in many Asian countries where sons are customarily responsible for providing old age support to parents. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, I find that parents invested nearly twice more in sons than in daughters in terms of college...