The Complexity of Marriage in Rural Ethiopia: Parental Transfers and Post-marital Residence Choices
研究了埃塞俄比亚农村父母资产转移与子女婚后居住选择的关系，发现资产转移多的子女更可能留在出生地，这可能是父母为保障晚年生活而采取的策略。
This paper examines the relationship between parental transfers and post-marital residence of children in rural Ethiopia. We investigate whether asset transfers to children are an avenue which parents use to secure old age. We model post-marital residence and transfers simultaneously in a two-stage probit least squares estimation framework. We find a positive relationship between transfers and post-marital residence, a proxy for old age support. Children who receive more assets are more likely to stay at birth place after marriage and vice versa. In conditions of scarce or lacking social security mechanisms, parents make strategic transfers to ensure better old age.