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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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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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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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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...
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Work beyond the age of 50 : what role for mental v.s. physical health?
Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2021
This paper contributes to the literature on old employment barriers by exploring empirically the relative importance of mental v.s. physical health in determining work. It combines regression and variance decomposition analyses to quantify the respective role of mental v.s. physical health. 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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Are older workers willing to learn?
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We …
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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...
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 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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