social_science3 papersavg year 2013quality 6/5weak evidence

Abstract Although the literature on informal care-giving for older parents shows that daughters have a higher tendency to provide care compared with sons, only a few studies have focused on the gender

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Abstract Although the literature on informal care-giving for older parents shows that daughters have a higher tendency to provide care compared with sons, only a few studies have focused on the gender composition of all children or parents’

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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

  • Born at the Right Time? Gendered Generations and Webs of Entitlement and Responsibility (2001) · doi

    This paper, part of a larger project on intergenerational interconnections, brings together existing data and research on gendered intergenerational relations, develops a conceptual framework for analysing gendered generations, and suggests questions, including new avenues of research, that remain to be asked.

    Keywords: intergenerational gendered part larger project interconnections brings together existing relations develops conceptual framework analysing generations
  • Providing More but Receiving Less: Daughters in Intergenerational Exchange in Mainland China (2017) · doi

    Based on theories about the generation gap in the understandings of family norm and the heterogeneous effects of the social forces that encourage women to contribute more in elder care by generation, the author proposes a gender asymmetrical pattern in which the patrilineal norm governs parents' decisions of downstream transfers but exerts little effect on children's upstream support for parents.

    Keywords: generation norm parents based theories understandings family heterogeneous effects social forces encourage women contribute elder
  • The effects of adult children's gender composition on the care type and care network of ageing parents (2022) · doi

    Abstract Although the literature on informal care-giving for older parents shows that daughters have a higher tendency to provide care compared with sons, only a few studies have focused on the gender composition of all children or parents’ entire range of care options.

    Keywords: care parents abstract literature informal giving older shows daughters higher tendency provide compared sons focused

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