title: Selection of children to provide care: the effect of earlier parental transfers.
abstract: We use the first wave of data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study to examine the effects of past parent-to-child financial transfers on selection of a child to provide assistance with basic personal care for unmarried parents. We estimate a fixed-effects conditional logit model and find a positive and significant association between past financial transfers and a child's current helping behavior. The coefficient of past financial transfers is in the direction hypothesized, and its magnitude is 80% as large as that of gender, a well-documented powerful predictor of parental caregiving. There appears to be substantial evidence that earlier parent-to-child financial gifts play a role in determining which child in the family will provide assistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Florida, USA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Henretta
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Soldo
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010287:Parent-Child Relations