An inverted ‘U-shaped’ pattern: the residence distance of adult children and the mental health of elderly in rural China

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dc.contributor.authorCai, Chaohuaen
dc.contributor.authorHe, Qinyingen
dc.contributor.authorAlwang, Jeffrey R.en
dc.coverage.countryChinaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-05T20:09:12Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-05T20:09:12Zen
dc.date.issued2022-07en
dc.date.updated2023-01-04T14:58:51Zen
dc.description.abstractUsing data from three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this study identifies a causal effect of the distance adult children reside from their parents on the mental health of the rural elderly. We use panel correlated random effect methods with instrumental variables to address potential confounding effects of reverse causality and unobserved omitted variables. We find that the impact of the distance adult children live from their parents on parental mental health exhibits an inverted ‘U-shaped’ pattern that first increases (good) and then slowly decreases (poor). Further analysis finds that the effect of the residence distance on the mental health of rural elderly has statistically significant differences by gender of the elderly.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2096850en
dc.identifier.eissn1466-4291en
dc.identifier.issn1350-4851en
dc.identifier.orcidAlwang, Jeffrey [0000-0002-2950-8516]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113055en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAgingen
dc.subjectRural-urban migrationen
dc.subjectResidence distanceen
dc.subjectMental healthen
dc.subjectChinaen
dc.titleAn inverted ‘U-shaped’ pattern: the residence distance of adult children and the mental health of elderly in rural Chinaen
dc.title.serialApplied Economics Lettersen
dc.typeArticleen
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dc.type.otherJournal Articleen
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