Analysis of the Impact of Family Structure on Intergenerational Economic Mobility
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https://doi.org/10.6981/FEM.202610_7(10).0009Keywords:
Family Structure; Intergenerational Economicmobility; Ordered Logistic Regression.Abstract
At present, our country is in the critical period of transformation, because of the rapid development of economy, the change of ideology and the change of birth policy, it has a great influence on the family structure of residents, the phenomenon of family size miniaturization, family aging and family childless is gradually appearing, which has a significant impact on the family intergenerational economic support model. This paper uses the Chinese health and pension survey (CHARLS)2020 to study the effect of family structure on intergenerational economic mobility by using ordinal logistic regression. The study found that compared with single-person families, standard Nuclear family, Nuclear family, immediate family, and other families had significantly negative effects on positive intergenerational economic flows. Therefore, we should strengthen and support the family endowment by perfecting the corresponding system construction and formulating the accurate endowment policy, and further improve the social endowment security system.
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