Childhood send-down experience and old-age support to parents: the twins experiment in China

In the mass movement of sending urban youth to the countryside during China’s Cultural Revolution, many families with multiple age-eligible children were forced to make a send-down choice among the siblings. We exploit this rare social experiment and employ data on urban twins in China to investigat...

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Main Authors: Zhang, H, Zhang, J, Zhang, N
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: University of Oxford 2022