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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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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 …

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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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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS

Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021

partner. Relying on the unanticipated timing of shocks, we combine coarsened exact matching and entropy balancing algorithms …

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...

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Employment protection and firm-provided training : quasi-experimental evidence from a labour market reform

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019

In 2012 a labour market reform, known as Fornero Law, substantially reduced firing restrictions for firms with more than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above the cut-off before and after the reform...

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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …

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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...

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