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Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael R.M. - 2019

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences methods, we find that the expansion increases insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points....

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Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

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The Marriage Age U-Shape

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during the twentieth century. First, I show that the U-shaped dynamics have been steeper in Western that in other countries. Second, I find that these dynamics in Western Europe are...

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Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E.; Pollak, Robert A.; Schone, Barbara … - 2021

This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time … and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital … changes are weakening the traditional role of the family as a support network. Because more recent cohorts of elderly persons …

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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

This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension status and income...

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School Starting Age and the Impact on School Admission

Caceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio - 2023

This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of students' initial enrolled schools. Employing minimum age requirements and an RD-design to mitigate endogeneity concerns, we identify benefits linked to commencing...

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents

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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the English Labor Market

Riach, Peter A. - 2015

Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty-one year-old and a thirty-nine year-old woman applied for jobs where a quot;new graduatequot; was sought; men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employment as waiters;...

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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the French Labour Market

Riach, Peter A. - 2015

In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere,...

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Paying Outsourced Labor : Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

Drenik, Andres - 2020

We estimate how much firms differentiate pay premia between regular and outsourced workers. We study temp agency work arrangements where pay setting has previously escaped measurement because existing datasets do not report links between user firms (the workplaces where temp workers perform...

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