Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations

This book explores how demographic changes effect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, which plays a role in the well-being of individuals and families. It details the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions. Coverage includes original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries and extends the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits. It addition, the material in the book goes beyond the study of traditional parent child transfers to examine transfers to kins and the bi-directionality of transfers. It will be of interest to demographers, public policy researchers and analysts, economists, sociologists, strategic planners.

Examines the issue of intergenerational transfers across a wide range of countries Allows us to test the applicability of some of the theories developed on the basis of American data to other social, political and economic contexts Extends the traditional analysis of inter-generational transfers by examining different types of transfers, namely goods, money, assets, time, co-residence and visits The chapters go beyond the study of traditional parentchild transfers

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Substitution and Substitutability: The Effects of Kin Availability on Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi.- Kinship Networks and Intergenerational Transfers.- Stability and Change in Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwan.- Demographic Events and the Timing of Monetary Transfers: Some Evidence from Germany.- Maternal Coresidence and Contact: Evidence from Cross-National Surveys.- Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China.- Health and Labour-Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan.- Social Expenditures on Children and the Elderly in OECD Countries, 19801995: Shifting Allocations, Changing Needs.- Consequences of Educational Change for the Burden of Chronic Health Problems in the Population.- Effects of Changing Age Structure and Intergenerational Transfers on Patterns of Consumption and Saving.- Some Intergenerational Transfer Implications of Birth Fluctuations.- On Stochastic Generational Accounting.