Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?

Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidenc...

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Main Authors:	Huang, Fali, Jin, Ginger Zhe, Xu, Lixin Colin
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ADULTS AGEING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAREGIVERS CHILDHOOD DEMOGRAPHY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIVORCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ETHNIC GROUPS FAMILIES FAMILY INCOME FAMILY MEMBERS FAMILY SIZE FAMILY STRUCTURE FEMALES FERTILITY FEWER YEARS OF EDUCATION GENDER GENDER NORMS HEALTH INSURANCE HOME HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CHORES HOUSEHOLD OUTPUT HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME INEQUALITY INHERITANCE INTERGENERATIONAL SUPPORT INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE KIDS KINSHIP LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LAWS LEGISLATION LIMITED RESOURCES LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT MALES MARRIAGES MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED COUPLES MARRIED WOMAN MIGRATION MINORITY MODERNIZATION MOTHER NUMBER OF CHILDREN OLD AGE OLDER ADULTS OPPOSITE SEX PARENTAL CONSENT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTS PENSION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION COUNCIL POPULATION INSTITUTE POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SUPPORT RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COUNTERPARTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL REGIONS RURAL RESIDENTS SAVINGS SERVICE PROVIDER SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL SUPPORT SPILLOVER SPOUSE TRADITIONAL FAMILY TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES TRADITIONAL VALUES URBAN AREAS URBAN COUPLES WEDDING WIFE WILL WIVES WOMAN WOMEN'S STATUS YOUNG COUPLE YOUNG MEN YOUNG PEOPLE
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spelling	okr-10986-214532021-04-23T14:04:02Z Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter? Huang, Fali Jin, Ginger Zhe Xu, Lixin Colin ADULTS AGEING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAREGIVERS CHILDHOOD DEMOGRAPHY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIVORCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ETHNIC GROUPS FAMILIES FAMILY INCOME FAMILY MEMBERS FAMILY SIZE FAMILY STRUCTURE FEMALES FERTILITY FEWER YEARS OF EDUCATION GENDER GENDER NORMS HEALTH INSURANCE HOME HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CHORES HOUSEHOLD OUTPUT HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME INEQUALITY INHERITANCE INTERGENERATIONAL SUPPORT INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE KIDS KINSHIP LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LAWS LEGISLATION LIMITED RESOURCES LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT MALES MARRIAGES MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED COUPLES MARRIED WOMAN MIGRATION MINORITY MODERNIZATION MOTHER NUMBER OF CHILDREN OLD AGE OLDER ADULTS OPPOSITE SEX PARENTAL CONSENT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTS PENSION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION COUNCIL POPULATION INSTITUTE POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SUPPORT RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COUNTERPARTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL REGIONS RURAL RESIDENTS SAVINGS SERVICE PROVIDER SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL SUPPORT SPILLOVER SPOUSE TRADITIONAL FAMILY TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES TRADITIONAL VALUES URBAN AREAS URBAN COUPLES WEDDING WIFE WILL WIVES WOMAN WOMEN'S STATUS YOUNG COUPLE YOUNG MEN YOUNG PEOPLE Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural and urban areas, parent matchmaking is associated with less marital harmony between the couple, more submissive wives, and a stronger belief in old age support for the son. In contrast, its association with couple income differs by rural and urban regions, perhaps because of differences in earning opportunities and in the enforcement of the one-child policy. Moreover, parent matchmaking is associated with more children for the couple and lower schooling for wives only in rural areas. Thus, in places with a stronger need for old age support, parents tend to be involved in matchmaking and use it to select submissive daughters-in-law to ensure old age support. The results render support to Becker, Murphy and Spenckuch (2015), who imply that parents would meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing old age support. 2015-02-13T19:28:40Z 2015-02-13T19:28:40Z 2015-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/23950160/null http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21453 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7188 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific China
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topic	ADULTS AGEING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAREGIVERS CHILDHOOD DEMOGRAPHY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIVORCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ETHNIC GROUPS FAMILIES FAMILY INCOME FAMILY MEMBERS FAMILY SIZE FAMILY STRUCTURE FEMALES FERTILITY FEWER YEARS OF EDUCATION GENDER GENDER NORMS HEALTH INSURANCE HOME HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CHORES HOUSEHOLD OUTPUT HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME INEQUALITY INHERITANCE INTERGENERATIONAL SUPPORT INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE KIDS KINSHIP LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LAWS LEGISLATION LIMITED RESOURCES LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT MALES MARRIAGES MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED COUPLES MARRIED WOMAN MIGRATION MINORITY MODERNIZATION MOTHER NUMBER OF CHILDREN OLD AGE OLDER ADULTS OPPOSITE SEX PARENTAL CONSENT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTS PENSION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION COUNCIL POPULATION INSTITUTE POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SUPPORT RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COUNTERPARTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL REGIONS RURAL RESIDENTS SAVINGS SERVICE PROVIDER SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL SUPPORT SPILLOVER SPOUSE TRADITIONAL FAMILY TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES TRADITIONAL VALUES URBAN AREAS URBAN COUPLES WEDDING WIFE WILL WIVES WOMAN WOMEN'S STATUS YOUNG COUPLE YOUNG MEN YOUNG PEOPLE
spellingShingle	ADULTS AGEING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAREGIVERS CHILDHOOD DEMOGRAPHY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIVORCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ETHNIC GROUPS FAMILIES FAMILY INCOME FAMILY MEMBERS FAMILY SIZE FAMILY STRUCTURE FEMALES FERTILITY FEWER YEARS OF EDUCATION GENDER GENDER NORMS HEALTH INSURANCE HOME HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CHORES HOUSEHOLD OUTPUT HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME INEQUALITY INHERITANCE INTERGENERATIONAL SUPPORT INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE KIDS KINSHIP LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LAWS LEGISLATION LIMITED RESOURCES LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT MALES MARRIAGES MARRIED COUPLE MARRIED COUPLES MARRIED WOMAN MIGRATION MINORITY MODERNIZATION MOTHER NUMBER OF CHILDREN OLD AGE OLDER ADULTS OPPOSITE SEX PARENTAL CONSENT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PARENTS PENSION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POPULATION COUNCIL POPULATION INSTITUTE POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC SUPPORT RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COUNTERPARTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL REGIONS RURAL RESIDENTS SAVINGS SERVICE PROVIDER SEX SEX RATIO SEX RATIOS SOCIAL NORMS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL SUPPORT SPILLOVER SPOUSE TRADITIONAL FAMILY TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES TRADITIONAL VALUES URBAN AREAS URBAN COUPLES WEDDING WIFE WILL WIVES WOMAN WOMEN'S STATUS YOUNG COUPLE YOUNG MEN YOUNG PEOPLE Huang, Fali Jin, Ginger Zhe Xu, Lixin Colin Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7188
description	Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their children. This paper finds supportive evidence in a survey of Chinese couples. In both rural and urban areas, parent matchmaking is associated with less marital harmony between the couple, more submissive wives, and a stronger belief in old age support for the son. In contrast, its association with couple income differs by rural and urban regions, perhaps because of differences in earning opportunities and in the enforcement of the one-child policy. Moreover, parent matchmaking is associated with more children for the couple and lower schooling for wives only in rural areas. Thus, in places with a stronger need for old age support, parents tend to be involved in matchmaking and use it to select submissive daughters-in-law to ensure old age support. The results render support to Becker, Murphy and Spenckuch (2015), who imply that parents would meddle with children's preferences to ensure their commitment to providing old age support.
format	Publications & Research
author	Huang, Fali Jin, Ginger Zhe Xu, Lixin Colin
author_facet	Huang, Fali Jin, Ginger Zhe Xu, Lixin Colin
author_sort	Huang, Fali
title	Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_short	Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_full	Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_fullStr	Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_full_unstemmed	Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?
title_sort	love, money, and old age support : does parental matchmaking matter?
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/23950160/null http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21453
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Love, Money, and Old Age Support : Does Parental Matchmaking Matter?

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