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With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
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and estimate logit models for 2002 and 2013 after first having divided the samples into children, adults and elderly … of children, and being aged and not receiving a pension. Pensions for the aged in combination with co-residency with … adult children or with other adults have kept poverty rates among the increasing number of elderly in urban China from …
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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investigation: children living close by visit their parents more frequently. We also find that children who live far away provide a … children is associated with living with a child or having a child nearby, while investing more in a child's schooling is … associated with greater net transfers to parents. -- living arrangement ; coresidence ; proximity of children ; CHARLS …
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Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as economic circumstances and health. One of the features...
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this paper, we explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience declines in mental health compared … to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing … loneliness increase among the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. Given the relationship …
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The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during adulthood. The analyses are performed on a unique historical sample of 14,520 Dutch individuals born in 1880-1918, who are followed throughout life. The economic conditions in...
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....
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As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting...
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …
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