health (11-14 percent). In addition, among the age-ineligible adults, the pension scheme shifts them from farming to non …-farming work, lowers insurance participation rate, but does not change income, expenditure or health significantly. Finally, among …, improved health, and higher schooling rate. …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … Life History Mail Survey (LHMS) in the USA, to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

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. …

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …