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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" campaign extends life expectancy : a study of intergenerational support for elderly parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
This study documents increased intergenerational support for elderly parents in China among adults who were exposed to the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495580
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A provocative perspective on population aging and old-age financial protection
Holzmann, Robert - 2013
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic position and outlines key ingredients to make it a successful experience. Yet to turn this challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793073
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Framing the predicted impacts of COVID-19 prophylactic measures in terms of lives saved rather than deaths is more effective for older people
Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295236
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours: does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703131
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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household savings behaviour
Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2015
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308491
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Can subjective mortality expectations and stated preferences explain varying consumption and saving behaviors among the elderly?
Salm, Martin (contributor) - 2006
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … information about preferences and subjective mortality expectations from the Health and Retirement Study merged with detailed … choices vary with subjective mortality rates in a way that is consistent with the life cycle model; 2) different answers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502663
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When death was postponed : the effect of HIV medication on work, savings, and marriage
Ejrnæs, Mette; García-Miralles, Esteban; Gørtz, Mette; … - 2023
Longer life expectancy can affect individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry, net of any changes in their underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290396
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Poverty and transitions in health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michał - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783642
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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463406
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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice
Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805556