Economic transition and new patterns of parent-adult child coresidence in urban China

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: aging; Chinese family; class; coresidence; gender; intergenerational relations; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/275; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1274/viewcontent/RiseAgrarianCapitalismChineseCharacteristics_2008.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study uses national data from the 1996 Life History and Social change in Contemporary China survey (N = 3,087) to gauge the effect of the economic transition on parent-adult child coresidence in urban China. Previous studies find that, thanks to state actions, traditional patterns in coresidenc...