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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in China : Evidence from the Charls Pilot

Strauss, John - 2010

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and Ses at Older Ages : Evidence from China

Huang, Wei - 2012

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...

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Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China : Evidence from Charls

Lei, Xiaoyan - 2012

, especially when public support is inadequate. However, using rich information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …

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Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults : The Role of Childhood Circumstances

Yan, Binjian - 2020

contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

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Social Security Expansion and Neighborhood Cohesion : Evidence from Community-Living Older Adults in China

Bradley, Elizabeth - 2019

using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of the largest existing pension program in the world. Since its launch in … 2009, more than 400 million Chinese have enrolled in NRPS. We use two waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal …

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Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults

Li, Yaxi - 2019

,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in …

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Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders

Connelly, Rachel - 2014

As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … socioeconomic variables matter in the determination of coresidency in China in ways that are very similar to their roles in other …

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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements : Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Cheng, Lingguo - 2015

unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China …

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Adverse Childhood Circumstances and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults : Lower Level or Faster Decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015) and matching cognitive outcomes to CHARLS …

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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi - 2020

evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

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