For both urban and rural areas, the negative impact of the burden of older adults is observed in all households and the estimated coefficients are highly significant; however, the increase in the burden of child care in households shows a depressive effect on household investment in education in rural areas, but a facilitative effect in urban areas.
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Micro-Household Human Capital Investment Decisions and a Simulation Study from the Intergenerational Conflict Perspective.
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With an increasing trend of aging and increase in family size, the older adult burdens and childcare pressures on families do overshadow their educational human capital investments to a certain extent.