Family help received by Mexican older adults across socioeconomic strata

Changes over a critical decade

Dados Bibliográficos

ID14965459
AutoresKarina Orozco-Rocha (0000-0002-7748-6198, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico, autor correspondente), César González-González (0000-0001-7156-3220, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico), Rebeca Wong (0000-0001-7287-0660, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, United States of America)
Ano2021
Volume45
Páginas1
Data de publicação2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1020-4989 • E-ISSN: 1680-5348
EditoraPan American Health Organization (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.26633/rpsp.2021.90
PMID34475885
OpenAlexW3194160040
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas15

Objective. To identify how patterns of family economic support help alleviate the cumulative effects of inequality, with focus on the financial support that children give their elderly parents. Methods. This paper uses data from two cross-sections, 2001 and 2012, of the Mexican Health and Aging Study for the 50 years and older population. Analysis includes descriptive statistics to estimate differences in economic support based on family and individual characteristics; and a multinomial probit regression model, in each cross-section, to analyze the amount of money received for economic help and the associated characteristics. Results. Economic help received was significantly reduced, both in proportion, from 20% to 10% between 2001 and 2012, and in the amount received, with differences by income quintile. In 2001, 14.9% of those in the lowest quintile (Q1) would move to Q4–Q5 with children’s help; in 2012, this was 9.1%. The adjusted probability of receiving any amount of money from children decreased from 0.511 in 2001 to 0.340 in 2012. Conclusions. In Mexico, economic inequality in the 50 years and older population remains a constant. Economic help received from children varied by income quintile and plays an important role for those in the lowest income groups. More research is needed to understand the patterns of intergenerational exchanges as these cohorts of older adults continue to age and as future cohorts are entering old age with more pronounced changes than the current cohorts experienced over this critical decade

Demographic economics · Descriptive statistics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Inequality · Population · Poverty · Probit model · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology