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Insights Into Heaping From Retrospective Breastfeeding Data.

Klerman, J.A. - RAND - 1996

effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality. …

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Child Mortality in Malaysia. Ethnic Differences and the Recent Decline.

Panis, C.W.A.; Lillard, L.A. - RAND - 1996

This paper is focused on two issues. Firstly, to what extent can we explain the observed mortality decline and secondly …

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Areal and Socioeconomic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Cameroon.

Defo, B.A. - RAND - 1996

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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Living Arrangements and Support Relationships among Elderly Indonesians: Case Study from Java and Sumatra

Beard, Victoria A.; Kunharibowo, Yacobus - RAND - 2000

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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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - RAND - 2010

, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …

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A Contribution to Health Capital Theory

Galama, Titus J. - RAND - 2011

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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Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Hurd, Michael D.; Smith, James P.; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2011

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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Labor Market and Immigration Behavior of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexicans

Aguila, Emma; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2009

This study analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to Mexico and non-migrants. The analysis is based on rich panel data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). Approximately 9 percent of MHAS respondents age 50 and older...

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Increases in Wealth Among the Elderly in the Early 1990s: How Much is Due to Survey Design?

Rohwedder, Susann; Hurd, Michael D.; Haider, Steven J. - RAND - 2004

The Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study shows a large increase in reported total wealth between 1993 and 1995. Such an increase is not found in other US household surveys around that period. This paper examines one source of this difference. The authors find that in...

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Persistent, Consistent, and Widespread?: Another Look at Recent Trends in Old-Age Disability.

Schoeni, Robert F.; Freedman, Vicki A.; Wallace, Robert B. - RAND - 2000

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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