Search Results - subject:"Older ages"

Does childhood traumatic experience affect household life insurance demand in middle and older ages? : Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine

Zheng, Xiangwen; Li, Xiaolin; Qin, Shikun - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 19, pp. 1946-1953

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Modal lifespan and disparity at older ages by leading causes of death: a Canada-U.S. comparison

Diaconu, Viorela; Ouellette, Nadine; Bourbeau, Robert - In: Journal of Population Research 37 (2020) 4, pp. 323-344

The U.S. elderly experience shorter lifespans and greater variability in age at death than their Canadian peers. In order to gain insight on the underlying factors responsible for the Canada-U.S. old-age mortality disparities, we propose a cause-of-death analysis. Accordingly, the objective of...

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Comparing the education gradient in chronic disease incidence among the elderly in six OECD countries

Côté-Sergent, Aurélie; Fonseca, Raquel; Strumpf, Erin - 2018

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Is Household Debt Growing for Older Americans?

Karamcheva, Nadia S. - Urban Institute - 2013

An increasing number of Americans are entering old age with outstanding debt, forcing many retirees to devote some income to servicing their debt and leaving them with less to cover daily living expenses. Using Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data, this brief reports that the share of adults...

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Job Changes at Older Ages: Effects on Wages, Benefits, and Other Job Attributes

Johnson, Richard W.; Kawachi, Janette - Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College - 2007

older ages. However, questions persist about the quality of available jobs. This study examines older Americans’ employment … opportunities by studying job changes at older ages. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, it compares wages, benefits … separations. Most people who switched employers at older ages moved to jobs that differed substantially from their previous jobs …

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