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The Effects of Children's Gender Composition on Filial Piety and Old-Age Support

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  • Rufei Guo
  • Junsen Zhang

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Do parents forge children’s preference for old-age support? Becker (1993) conjectures that the inculcation of filial piety increases parents’ investment in children’s human capital. We provide the first empirical evidence on parents’ instilling of filial piety in children, by combining the natural experiment of twins with China’s One-Child Policy to obtain exogenous variations in children’s gender composition. Among the different models of filial-piety inculcation, our empirical results favour a Beckerian model of altruism inculcation in which parents solicit support from the child with a higher earnings endowment.

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  • Rufei Guo & Junsen Zhang, 2020. "The Effects of Children's Gender Composition on Filial Piety and Old-Age Support," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 130(632), pages 2497-2525.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:130:y:2020:i:632:p:2497-2525.
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