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Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2020
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213181
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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 age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
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Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China
Chen, Xi; Wang, Tianyu; Busch, Susan H. - 2018
We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest existing pension program in the world. Since its launch in 2009, more than 400 million Chinese have enrolled in the NRPS. We first describe plausible pathways through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939973
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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
socioeconomic characteristics. We conclude by drawing on lessons from our synthesis of studies. If poverty reduction objectives are …
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 explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213179
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Pension and Health Services Utilization: Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China
Chen, Shanquan; Chen, Xi; Law, Stephen; Lucas, Henry; … - 2020
The proportion of people aged 60 years or over is growing faster than other age groups. The well-being older adults depend heavily on their state of health. This study evaluates the effects of pensions on older adults' health service utilization, and estimates the size of pension required to...
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Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China
Wang, Tianyu; Sun, Ruochen; Sindelar, Jody L.; Chen, Xi - 2024
Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the...
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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective
Bruni, Michele - 2018
China still lags behind Europe along the path of the demographic transition and therefore is still much younger. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863331
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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