Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (1994-2012), we studied the association between adult children's education and financial and caregiving support they provided to their aging parents in the last years of the parents' life. We controlled for the circumstances of parents' death, their functional limitations, whether they were in long-term care or home-care settings in the last year of their life, and in some models, various measures of parents' self-reported health. Estimates suggest that having a college degree and above has a significantly positive association with monetary transfers and knowledge support children provide to their parents. Estimates remained robust in models that included parent fixed effects. Evidence of children's education on instrumental support to parents was nonlinear in that although some college education increased instrumental support, but, a college degree did not have a statistically significant effect. Gender did not play a moderating role in the relationship between offspring education and support towards parents.

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儿童的教育如何影响照料：父母最后一生的证据。

使用健康与退休研究（1994-2012）中的数据，我们研究了成年子女的教育程度与他们在父母生命的最后几年中为年迈的父母提供的财务和照料支持之间的关系。我们控制了父母的去世情况，他们的功能限制，生命的最后一年是在长期护理还是家庭护理中，并且在某些模型中控制了父母自我报告的健康状况的各种指标。估计表明，拥有大学及以上学历与金钱转移和孩子向父母提供的知识支持有着显着的正相关。在包括父代固定效应的模型中，估计值仍然很健壮。儿童的证据 对父母的工具支持的教育是非线性的，因为尽管某些大学教育增加了工具支持，但是，大学学位并没有统计学上的显着影响。性别在后代教育和对父母的支持之间的关系中没有起到调节作用。