This article explores the potential effects of retirement on mental health and health care utilisation isolating … sources of potential heterogeneity in treatment effect. To estimate the effects of retirement, we devise a new identifying … British Household Panel Survey, a rich representative longitudinal survey. It is found that retirement has a small impact on …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …

Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …

The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …

incidence analysis of public spending for health. District-level financial data on public transfers are combined with household … survey data on the use of various types of facilities by the population to assess whether public health spending reaches …-between. Public health funding is also found to be regressive, in large part because hospitals and clinics still benefited the better …

for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public …

survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show …

The object of this paper is to examine the impact of type of pension scheme on retirement behaviour. The well … persistent unemployment, especially in Europe — and a supply effect — pension benefits and the value of other savings have … retirement behaviour. The paper presents a model of a simple (defined contribution) pension plan and looks at the optimal …