Abstract
More recently, this mutuality has taken on a more critical salience as realignments in housing markets, employment, and welfare states have worked together to undermine housing access for new households. In this context, families have become increasingly involved in smoothening the routes of young adult members up the ‘housing ladder’ into homeownership. Housing Intergenerational support appears to have become much more widespread.Previous empirical literature was limited by the database and couldnot understand the factors affecting decision-making behavior. By contrast, we take Cluster Random Sampling as the main way to collect data. And the estimates show that gender, age, marriage, and health status affect the decision-making behavior of intergenerational transfer. It also shows that women are in a relatively weaker position under the patriarchal social structure. The parents with the experience of inheritance or received financial support would significantly follow the same path of transfer to their children,
again verifying that the intergenerational transfer is an important way of capital replication. The expectation from parents of living together with their children also encourages them to get closer to each other through inter-generational transfer. Among the three transfer paths, the respondents most preferred cash or loan financing schemes. Finally, it is verified that policy change can promote the formation of intergenerational transfer in Taiwan society. In other words, changes in the public sphere do affect intergenerational contracts within families.
| Date of Award | 2021 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Supervisor | Tzu-Yuan Chao (Supervisor) |