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This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The results suggest an important role for...
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After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected and how they have responded...
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Recent research on household behavior suggests that, ceteris paribus, a woman's "power" within a household influences consumption and time allocation choices. From an empirical point of view, a central stumbling block in this line of inquiry has been identification of sources of "power" that can...
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both state-specific waivers in the early 1990s and the 1996 federal reform legislation. Unlike earlier work, the authors analyze a wide array of indicators, including welfare participation, labor...
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After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected and how they have responded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729496
part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …
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unequivocally proven. Retirement is associated with a large change in a person's daily routine and environment. In this paper, the … authors propose two mechanisms how retirement may lead to cognitive decline. For many people retirement leads to a less … stimulating daily environment. In addition, the prospect of retirement reduces the incentive to engage in mentally stimulating …
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What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …
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Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement implying … that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon has been called the retirement consumption puzzle …. In contrast to some of the previous studies, the authors find no evidence of the retirement consumption puzzle during the …
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Retirement Study. They compare model simulations with those from a standard unitary model for a set of policy reforms; such as …
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