Does Young People's Access to Higher Education Affect Their Parents'Health?——An Empirical Test of the Intergenerational Health Returns of Higher Education
In the promotion of the building of a powerful country in education,higher education plays a leading role,which is reflected not only in its promotion of people's all-round development and its cultivation of high-quality talents to cater to the needs of the development of the times,but also in its improvement of the health of the population and its support of the building of healthy China.Focusing on the intergenerational health returns of higher education,this study explores the effects of young people's access to higher education on their parents'health,based on propensity score matching,the mediating effect model,and the data from the China Family Panel Studies.The results of the study reveal the following:Young people's access to higher education has different effects on their parents'health;their access to higher education fails to have a significant effect on their fathers'health,but has a significantly positive effect on their mothers'health by significantly improving their mothers'daily-life abilities and reducing their depression;economic channels play an important mediating role in that young people's access to higher education improves their socioeconomic status and significantly reduces their mothers'depression;and as an important social factor,higher education can bring about intergenerational health returns and affect the accumulation of the health human capital of individuals and their families.In the future,we need to continue to develop higher education,and enhance the accumulation of social and human capital so as to lay a solid foundation for the building of healthy China.
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