Parental Health Penalty on Adult Children's Employment: Gender Difference and Long-Term Consequence

25 Aug 2023  ·  Jiayi Wen, Haili Huang ·

This paper examines the long-term gender-specific impacts of parental health shocks on adult children's employment in China. We build up an inter-temporal cooperative framework to analyze household work decisions in response to parental health deterioration. Then employing an event-study approach, we establish a causal link between parental health shocks and a notable decline in female employment rates. Male employment, however, remains largely unaffected. This negative impact shows no abatement up to eight years that are observable by the sample. These findings indicate the consequence of "growing old before getting rich" for developing countries.

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