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Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

II, Charles L. Baum - 2007

The rapid growth in obesity represents a major public concern. Although body weight tends to increase with age, the evolution of obesity over the lifecycle is not well understood. We use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how body weight changes with age...

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Socioeconomic Status and Health : Why is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children?

Currie, Janet - 2002

Case, Lubotsky, and Paxson (2001) show that the well-known relationship between socio- economic status (SES) and health exists in childhood and grows more pronounced with age. However, in cross-sectional data it is difficult to distinguish between two possible explanations. The first is that...

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Harmonizing the Yin and Yang : Gender Disparities in Subjective Well-Being after Retirement in China

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Chou, Shin-yi; Yu, Han - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …

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Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

Gustman, Alan L. - 2007

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

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Self-Selection and International Migration : New Evidence from Mexico

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...

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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kevin - 2006

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...

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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

Berman, Eli - 2000

that immigrants favor bequests more and spend more time with their grandchildren in the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey …

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Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight

Currie, Janet - 1999

This paper examines the long-term effects of low birthweight (LBW) on educational attainments, labor market outcomes, and health status using data from the National Child Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born in Great Britain during one week in 1958 through age...

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Dynamic Aspects of of Children's Health, Intellectual Development, and Family Economic Status

Shakotko, Robert A. - 1980

This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by family economic variables. The model proposed recognizes that these processes may be jointly dependent, and may in part be determined by common unobserved factors; these factors...

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Schooling, Ability, Non Pecuniary Rewards, Socioeconomic Background and the Lifetime Distribution of Earnings

Taubman, Paul J. - 1973

Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income distribution occurs in most political and economic models and has from ancient times to the modern era. Society and government have expressed a desire to establish a minimum...

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