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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population …, education, psychosocial support, and improved decision-making regarding life planning, health care, and financial matters. Yet …. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …
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. Country-level differences in socioeconomic conditions, health behaviors, chronic disease prevalence, and the strength of …
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cognitive abilities on average? Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we find … empirical evidence that this is the case, even after controlling for self-reported childhood health, self-reported childhood …
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We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...
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Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the employment status of one's peer group. For example, it has been shown that the well-being of the...
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We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
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care recipients' health outcomes. Our results demonstrate that switching from informal to formal care does very little to … the recipients' hospital usage and health outcomes. …
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individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe …
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collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …
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