Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263455 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15239
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over age 60 are eligible to receive a minimum of 70 CNY non-contributory monthly pension. We leverage age eligibility and variations in pension receipt to identify the inter-generational effect of NRPS on health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child weight without impacting height. Overall, child BMI z score increases by 1.09, which is largely driven by grandfathers' pension receipt raising rates of overweight and obesity among grandsons. Among the potential mechanisms, our findings are more plausibly explained by a mixture of income effect, son preference, and rising inter-generational co-residence and childcare.
Subjects: 
social pension
child health
inter-generational relationship
intra-household allocation
migration
living arrangement
China
JEL: 
H23
H31
H55
I38
J22
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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