Publications [#368975] of Kenneth C. Land

Book Chapters

1. Zeng, Y; Land, KC; Gu, D; Wang, Z, Dynamics of Households and Living Arrangements in the Eastern, Middle, and Western Regions of China, in Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol. 36 (January, 2014), pp. 225-236 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/23)

   Abstract:
   In this chapter presented the dynamics of household and living arrangements in the Eastern, Middle, and Western regions of China. The results showed that, if the current age distribution of rural-to-urban migrants with a high concentration of young people remains unchanged, the Middle region will have the most serious problems of population and household aging, followed by the Eastern region; population and household aging will be twice as severe in rural areas compared to urban areas in Middle and Eastern regions. Our multi-regional projections and analysis clearly showed that population and household aging problems under the current fertility policies unchanged would be much more serious than that under the two-child policy. Our study suggests that the inclusion of elderly parents in regional and rural to urban family migration, which implies co- or proximate-residence between old parents and adult children, would help to avoid the over-aging problems in rural areas and the Middle region; this strategy may result in a win-win outcome for both old and young generations.