Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka, Yuji, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka, Yuji, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz et al.

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers, 2016, 970, 1-34

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タイトル	Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?
著者	NRID 1000090173632 1000090173632 著者名 Horioka, Yuji, Charles
	著者名 Gahramanov, Emin
	著者名 Hayat, Aziz
	著者名 Tang, Xueli
キーワード等	Altruism
	attention
	bequest motive
	care
	caregiving
	contest success function
	coresidence
	elderly care
	exchange motive
	family care
	informal care
	intergenerational transfers
	Japan
	parental care
	parent-child relations
	selfishness
	social norms
	strategic bequest motive
抄録	In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a “contest success function” and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. To summarize our main findings, 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 selfish bequest motive or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms.
出版者	The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
収録物名	Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
巻(号)	970
ページ	1-34
刊行年月	2016-05
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/56976
関連情報 (references)	URI https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/2016/DP0970.pdf
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DC.creator	Horioka, Yuji, Charles
	Gahramanov, Emin
	Hayat, Aziz
	Tang, Xueli
DC.publisher	The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
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DC.subject	Altruism
	attention
	bequest motive
	care
	caregiving
	contest success function
	coresidence
	elderly care
	exchange motive
	family care
	informal care
	intergenerational transfers
	Japan
	parental care
	parent-child relations
	selfishness
	social norms
	strategic bequest motive
DCTERMS.abstract	In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a “contest success function” and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. To summarize our main findings, 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 selfish bequest motive or the exchange motive (much stronger than in the United States), but we find that their caregiving behavior is also heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms.
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