ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
How Do Middle-Aged Chinese Men and Women Balance Caregiving and Employment Income?
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- Inner strengths as buffers against the impact of insecure attachment on depressive symptoms in working women.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The impact of long-term care insurance on family care for older adults: The mediating role of intergenerational financial support.PloS one · 2024Article
- Identification of solid fuel use and smoking-related additional factors may increase the accuracy assessment of their impacts on life expectancy.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
- Analysis of influence of physical health factors on subjective wellbeing of middle-aged and elderly women in China.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Unpaid family caregivers might suffer losses in income as a result of care provision. Here we used data from the baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to assess the relationship between hours of weekly caregiving provided to grandchildren/parents/parents-in-law and individual's monthly employment income. Our study sample comprised 3718 middle-aged Chinese adults who were of working age (45-60 years). For women and men separately, we used a likelihood-based method to determine a caregiving threshold in a two-stage Heckman selection procedure. Instrumental variables were used to rule out the endogeneity of caregiving hours. Our analysis revealed a negative association between caregiving and income for women that depended on a caregiving threshold of 63 h per week. There was an absence of caregiving-income relationship among men. These results offer new insights into the opportunity costs of unpaid caregiving and support tailored policies to protect the financial well-being of female caregivers.
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