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This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of...
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In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … research. Such opportunities are ample and diverse, ranging from frailty and financial abuse to health care arrangements in the …
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Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances …
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healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public … provision of health services …
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We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for...
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Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE …), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period …. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader …
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to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and … cognitive health. We also show that higher genetic risk is associated with worse economic outcomes on several dimensions …
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The targeting of an UK extra-cost disability benefit for older people, Attendance Allowance, is analyzed using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. First, a binary model of benefit participation is used to investigate whether receipt is responsive to the onset of...
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preventive care and the implications for patient outcomes. We use unique data from the Military Health System, where we observe … have the most direct and important impact on health. We find striking evidence that racial concordance leads to improved …
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