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Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults : The Role of Childhood Circumstances
Yan, Binjian - 2020
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014...
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Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger - 2009
spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later … of expenditure allocated towards the welfare of children. FHH having access to alternative means of old-age security …
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The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood : Evidence by Age
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2018
particular for children from low socio-economic status households, and substitution of infections from primary school ages to low …
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The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents : Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Yamamura, Eiji; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our expectations, we find that maternal grandmothers have...
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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
We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults : A Research Note
Chen, Xi - 2022
This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We then leverage the growing number of studies of the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on...
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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
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Parental Disability and Teenagers' Time Allocation
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2022
and caring for household children. However, if their father is disabled, boys spend more time on food preparation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088401
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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage : The Case of Peru
Favara, Marta - 2016
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to establish causality, the longitudinal nature of the data...
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