Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India
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Keywords
co-residence with children; intergenerational transfers; elderly health and wealth effects; simultaneity bias; correlated recursive model;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2007-07-07 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-CWA-2007-07-07 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-DEV-2007-07-07 (Development)
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