Table 4.
Contact and financial transfers by living arrangements of non-co-resident children.
| Overall | Live in the county |
Do not live in the county |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer to Parents | ||||
| Fraction Positive | 0.30 (0.01) |
0.28 (0.01) |
0.37 (0.01) |
0.00 |
| Amount if > 0 (1000 RMB) | 2.41 (0.39) |
1.74 (0.19) |
4.01 (1.24) |
0.00 |
| Transfer from Parents | ||||
| Fraction Positive | 0.08 (0.00) |
0.08 (0.00) |
0.08 (0.01) |
0.00 |
| Amount if > 0 (1000 RMB) | 3.31 (0.51) |
3.53 (0.61) |
2.59 (0.81) |
0.00 |
| Net Transfer | ||||
| Average Amount (1000 RMB) | 1.41 (0.37) |
0.68 (0.22) |
3.23 (1.16) |
0.00 |
| Contact | ||||
| # of Visits per Year | 97.72 (1.60) |
123.27 (1.90) |
10.30 (0.97) |
0.00 |
| # of other Communications per Year* |
58.58 (1.38) |
63.27 (1.67) |
44.26 (1.67) |
0.00 |
| Observations | 13145 | 9999 | 3146 |
Note:
1
Sample: non-co-resident adult children from CHARLS elderly households (with at least one respondent 60 or above).
2
Transfer amounts to parent and from parent are defined as the average amount conditional on the amount is positive.
3
Net transfer is defined as the amount of transfer from child to parents minus the amount of transfer the child received from parents.
4
Clustered standard errors at family level in brackets.
5
P-values of testing whether the means are equal are provided in the last column.
*
Other communications include email, mail, phone calls, text messages, etc.