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A neglected determinant of eating behaviors : relative age
Fumarco, Luca; Hartmann, Sven Alfred; Principe, Francesco - 2024
, and be on a diet. These findings are likely to reflect peer effects: two students with the same absolute age, who were …
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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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Does aging at home make older adults healthy : evidence from medicaid home and community-based services
Liu, Yinan; Zai, Xianhua - 2022
The Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) subsidizes long-term care to satisfy the increasing desire to age at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age-in-place, but less quality and quantity of home-based care...
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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household saving behaviour
Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2017
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the household's propensity to save. Using the … the Scottish elderly aged 65 and above. We find that the policy reduced the household saving rate by 1:9 percentage points …
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults
Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2020
Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle- income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined the association of early life risk factors with frailty among older adults using a large,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149131
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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB … causal evidence of the impact of fertility on elderly parents' SWB from a developing economy. …
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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...
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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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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 individual's environment playing a significant role. Consequently, it is crucial to comprehend the enduring effects of early life circumstances on health in old age. In this study,...
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