EDUCATION OF ADULT CHILDREN AND MORTALITY OF THEIR ELDERLY PARENTS IN TAIWAN*

From: Demography | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Chuang, Yi-Li; Martin, Linda G; Ofstedal, Mary Beth; Zimmer, Zachary | Copyright information

In societies in which families are highly integrated, the education of family members may be linked to survival. Such may be the case in Taiwan, where there are large gaps in levels of education across generations and high levels of resource transfers between family members. This study employs 14 years of longitudinal data from Taiwan to examine the combined effects of the education of older adults and their adult children on the mortality outcomes of older adults. We use nested Gompertz haza...

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