The Influence Of The Educational Conditions Of Rural Children On Family Endowment Support:an Empirical Study

At present, China has entered to the aging society. The aging population and the "emptynest" issue give the government, social and family put forward more urgent and complex than thepension requirements of economic support.Investment in education for country and every citizenis very important,because it can contribute to national economic and social development, scientificand technological progress at the macro level,can help individuals based on the communityparticipation in the competition for revenue at the micro level. At present,despite governmentattaches importance to education, expanding on the initial investment in higher education, butlimited to the agricultural population dominated population structure, a serious shortage of supplyof rural education resources and the burden of high fees in higher education and many otherfactors, competively result in farmers average years of education of their children still low.The relationship between education spendings and pension outlays is among the mostimportant issues in field of population science, and a positive correlation between them in ruralareas is found by the authors. Based on the survey data from468rural children and StructuralEquation Model(SEM), this paper from the family, school, occupation education probes into theinfluence of the educational conditions of rural children on the family endowment support. Theresults showed that school education (especially the educational time) has the greatest impact onthe family support for the aged, followed by vocational education(especially the educationaleffectiveness) and then family education(especially the educational time of parents). Finally, somepolicy enlightenments for the family endowment support are proposed from the aspect ofchildren’s educational level.