School of Public Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China.
Business School, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2023 Apr 3;11:1111288. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1111288. eCollection 2023.
Against the background of population aging and large-scale internal migration, this study uses an ordered logit with two-way fixed effects to examine the effect of children's internal migration on the subjective wellbeing of parents left behind. The study is based on the China Family Panel Studies database.
Data were obtained from CFPS (China Family Panel Studies), and ordered logit with two-way fixed effects was used to test the total effect of children's internal migration on subjective wellbeing of parents left behind, and KHB test was used to separate intergenerational spiritual support and intergenerational financial support to examine the intergenerational support preferences of parents left behind.
The results show that children's internal migration has a significant negative effect on the subjective wellbeing of parents left behind, mainly through the reduction of intergenerational spiritual support. Furthermore, intergenerational financial support significantly mitigates this negative effect. There is heterogeneity in the direction of the total wellbeing effect across parents' preferences, as well as in the masking effect of financial support. However, the effect of financial support never fully offsets the effect of spiritual support.
To cope with the negative effects of children's internal migration on parents, positive measures should be taken to change parental preferences.
在人口老龄化和大规模国内迁移的背景下,本研究采用双向固定效应有序逻辑回归,考察了子女国内迁移对留守父母主观幸福感的影响。本研究基于中国家庭追踪调查数据库。
数据来源于中国家庭追踪调查(CFPS),采用双向固定效应有序逻辑回归检验子女国内迁移对留守父母主观幸福感的总效应,并通过 KHB 检验分离代际精神支持和代际经济支持,以检验留守父母的代际支持偏好。
研究结果表明,子女国内迁移对留守父母的主观幸福感有显著的负向影响,主要通过减少代际精神支持来实现。此外,代际经济支持显著缓解了这种负向影响。父母的偏好会导致总幸福感效应的方向产生异质性,以及经济支持的掩盖效应。然而,经济支持的作用从未完全抵消精神支持的作用。
为了应对子女国内迁移对父母的负面影响,应采取积极措施改变父母的偏好。