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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 - Current version: April 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …
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What does a job candidate's age signal to employers?
Borm, Hannah Van; Burn, Ian; Baert, Stijn - 2019
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 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...
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Labour supply and informal care supply : the impacts of financial support for long-term elderly care
Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2017
We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-indifferences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat
Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021
Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...
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Early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) and the health of older adults in China : a meta-analysis (2008–2023)
Shen, Chi; Chen, Xi - 2024
There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …-course approach and strategic interventions to enhance public health in an aging society. …
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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
heterogeneity and, in consequence, a risk of sample selection bias. To provide robustness checks we use a matching approach. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548113
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Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle- aged and older Chinese adults : lower level or faster decline?
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021
We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we … of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015) and matching cognitive outcomes to CHARLS …
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Differentiating retirement age to compensate for career arduousness
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2021
Population ageing in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, many argue that this age should be differentiated to account for individuals' career arduousness. This paper explores the relevance of this idea. It combines the 7th wave of the SHARE panel data on health at...
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