Intergenerational housing support between retired old parents and their children in urban China

Li, Bingqin and Shin, Hyun Bang ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 (2013) Intergenerational housing support between retired old parents and their children in urban China. Urban Studies, 50 (16). pp. 3225-3242. ISSN 0042-0980

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Abstract

Intergenerational support between parents and children in Chinese cities has been dramatically affected by recent social changes. This paper investigates the changing pattern of intergenerational housing support between retired old parents and their children, and the legacy of public housing in shaping this pattern. By initially establishing an up-to-date picture of intergenerational housing support between retired old parents and their children, it seeks to determine how this support depends on whether parents have previously been allocated public housing and, if so, on whether they have disposed of it or have continued to occupy it. A survey with 1000 retired old people from Tianjin in 2009 is used for the analysis. A support flow model is used to go beyond studying housing support per se, and to study the flow of intergenerational support in both directions and in different forms.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://usj.sagepub.com/
Additional Information:	© 2013 Urban Studies Journal Ltd.
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Social Policy Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2013 16:39
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2024 05:15
Funders:	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)/ London School of Economics and Political Science Young Researcher Award
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/47907

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