Asset or burden? Impact of children on parents' retirement
- Authors
- Jeong, Su Yeon; Kim, Jinyoung
- Issue Date
- 12월-2020
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Retirement; Quantity and quality of children; Old-age support
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ASIAN ECONOMICS, v.71
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ASIAN ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 71
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/51416
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.asieco.2020.101251
- ISSN
- 1049-0078
- Abstract
- If parents receive financial support in retirement from their children, having more children with higher earning power may expedite their retirement. On the other hand, retirement may be delayed if parents are burdened with educational expenses for children. We empirically investigate how the quantity and the education of children influence their parents' retirement decisions. Due to the endogeneity of childrearing in the retirement decision, we employ the instrumental variable method with twin births and child deaths as instruments. We find that parents retire earlier when they have more children and better educated children and they receive a significant amount of transfers from children. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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