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This paper is focused on two issues. Firstly, to what extent can we explain the observed mortality decline and secondly …
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mortality differences in Cameroon by residence area, mother's education, ethnicity, marital status and union type, religion and … inteplay of those factorson differentials mortality. …
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effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality. …
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Most elderly parents in Indonesia coreside with their adult children. However, preliminary studies provide some …; Cameron 2000). This paper uses qualitative case studies of elderly parents and their adult children to examine the connection …
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, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …
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This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...
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This study provides new evidence on trends in disability among the elderly from 1982 to 1996. Logistics analysis is used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample includes 124,949 people ages 70 and older in the 1982-1996...
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Study on inter-vivos transfers that span up to twelve years to: describe financial transfers made by parents to children and … about the age pattern of transfers and how mortality risk, risk aversion and economic resources affect giving behavior. …
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This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as Òunretirement,Ó in which retirees appear to reverse their retirement decisions and return to work. Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the author shows that nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a...
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In this paper the authors examine the scope of cross-country variation in institutions related to social insurance. Building on the variation they find they assess the value of new micro data that is comparable across countries to help identify key parameters of individual behavior. They present...
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