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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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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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Influence in economics and aging

Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2021

We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of leading economists. We consider, as a measure of influence, monthly RePEc rankings and address the dynamics of rankings within the top group as a function of age. We find that the rankings peak at age 60 or 30 years after...

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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,...

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Turkish university students' self-perceptions of aging : an analysis over socio-economic dimensions

Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019

recent rapid aging trend in the near future. That said, and although the number of studies related to the students … ages. Also, students accept retirement period as a reflection of aging and most of the students claim they had never … thought about the aging process before. Yet, female and male students describe the meaning of retirement as the most …

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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...

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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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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe

Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also affects the health of natives 65-80 years old....

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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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Does extreme temperature exposure take a toll on mental health? : evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023

Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme temperature. Differently from existing literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in...

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