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combines the 7th wave of the SHARE panel data on health at an older age and US occupational O*NET data. With these unique data … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that …
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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. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015) and matching cognitive outcomes to CHARLS …), neighborhood cohesion, friendship and health conditions, are significantly associated with both the level of cognitive deficit and …
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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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Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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the "Later, Longer, Fewer" (LLF) family planning campaign in the 1970s. Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …
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We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …
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introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …
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health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves …
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