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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Lin, Zhuoer; Yin, Xuecheng; Levy, Becca R.; Yuan, Yue; … - 2024
from the Health and Retirement Study (1995-2018). Family support was categorized by spousal presence and children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530471
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264436
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Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data
Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023
obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Nationally representative blood biomarkers identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540270
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Household Wealth and Body Mass Index: Towards a Healthy Ageing?
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023
Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, including 15 countries from 2004 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435501
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Social interactions, loneliness and health: A new angle on an old debate
Casabianca, Elizabeth; Kovacic, Matija - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between historically rooted norms that drive individuals to adhere to predeftned behavioural standards and attitudes towards loneliness. Focusing on a sub-population of second-generation immigrants, we identify an intergenerationally transmitted component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455132
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729229
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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018827
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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140635
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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182864
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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? Causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020
This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213179