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Demography of Global Aging
Bloom, David E. - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin - 2012
structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096769
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China's Sex Ratio and Crime : Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2016
rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other species, we find that China's high sex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997453
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren - 2014
sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065312
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions : Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo - 2016
mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001346
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The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships : Comparative Evidence from China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all … unique setting for studying the economics of intergenerational relationships during development, given the rapidity of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957478
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016378
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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …
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Pension and Health Services Utilization : Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China
Chen, Shanquan; Chen, Xi; Law, Stephen; Lucas, Henry; … - 2021
, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we adopted a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314942
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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Nikolov, Plamen - 2019
response to changes in their parents' income. Exploiting a unique policy intervention in China, we examine using a difference …
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