Why do children take care of their elderly parents? Are the Japanese any different?

Arbeitspapier

We conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of why children live with (or near) their parents and provide care and assistance to them using microdata from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. We find that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or near) their elderly parents and/or to provide care and attention to them if they expect to receive a bequest from them, which constitutes strong support for the strategic bequest motive, but that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ADBI Working Paper ; No. 739

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
• Thema: bequests ; caregiving ; co-residence ; elderly care ; exchange motive ; intergenerational transfers ; Japan ; parental care ; parent-child relations ; selfish bequest motive ; strategic bequest motive

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Horioka, Charles ; Gahramanov, Emin ; Hayat, Aziz ; Tang, Xueli
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
• (wo): Tokyo
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/163238
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ