中文摘要：

本文利用中国健康与养老追踪调查数据（CHARLS） 2011年数据,实证分析子女”啃老”对老年人生活满意度的影响.在考虑了数据聚类特征的情况下,发现老年人向子女提供经济支持有利于老年人生活满意度的提高,而照看孙子女则降低了老年人的生活满意度.而且,上述影响在不同老年人群体间缺乏一致性,也就是存在性别、城乡、年龄、不同经济状况间的差异.此外,老年人的健康状况、年龄、受教育程度、个人经济状况及所在社区情况都会对老年人生活满意度产生影响.

英文摘要：

The empirical study of the data form 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey （CHARLS） demonstrates the effects of NEETs on life satisfaction of elderly. The Consideration of the cluster features of the data find that the elders economical support offeringto adult children can raise their own life satisfaction, but their physical labors in looking after grandsons/granddaughterstend to decline their life satisfaction. However, such effects lack of consistence and differs with gender, age, urban and rural differences. On the other hand, the eiders＂ health status, age,education,personal economic status and community condition all influence their life satisfaction.The primary policy implications to raise the elders＂ life satisfaction are asthe follows： helping the adult Children＇s employment for the poor families and rural poor families, providing supports to the parents＇ into the urban with Children to look after little grandchildren, loosening the household registration system,providing with enough low-rent housing by the landownership reform, conversion of construction land into housing land, Reforming public finance system and education system to assist the children of floating population to have equal rights of education and to help the children left home apart from their parents.