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The Effect of Informal Care from Children on Cognitive Functioning of Older Parents

Bonsang, Eric - 2013

) approach with the gender ratio of the children as an instrument for the amount of informal care that parents receive from their …This study aims to investigate the effect of informal care received from the children, understood as the instrumental … component of social support, on the cognitive functioning of elderly parents. As the correlation between informal care and …

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The Long-Run Effect of Maternity Leave Benefits on Mental Health : Evidence from European Countries

Avendano, Mauricio - 2014

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to data on maternity leave legislation from 1960 to 2010....

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Uncertain Pension Income and Household Saving

van Santen, Peter - 2016

I study the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimate both the displacement effect of pensions on private saving and the precautionary saving effect due to uncertainty in pension income. Using a lifecycle framework, the consumption function depends on expected pension...

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Consumption Behavior, Annuity Income and Mortality Risk of the Elderly

Kutlu-Koc, Vesile; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Kalwij, Adriaan - 2015

Previous studies find that individuals do not draw down their assets after retirement which is at odds with the predictions of a simple life cycle model without uncertainty. Hurd (1989, 1999) explains saving behavior of elderly singles and couples by adding lifetime uncertainty and bequest...

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Lifetime Income and Old Age Mortality Risk in Italy over Two Decades

Belloni, Michele - 2012

This paper examines the association between lifetime income and old age mortality risk, referred to as the income-mortality gradient, in Italy during the 1980s and 1990s. We extend the literature by estimating the income-mortality gradient using Cox proportional hazard models, where the...

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Housing Equity Release, Old-Age Income, and Public Finances

Määttänen, Niku - 2015

Many elderly people could markedly increase they standard of living by releasing housing equity. Purchase of a life annuity would increase the benefits of this release. Focusing on the Finnish case, we analyze the fiscal implications of different forms of housing equity release. We take into...

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Changes in the Income Distribution of the Dutch Elderly between 1989 and 2020 : A Dynamic Microsimulation

Knoef, Marike; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Kalwij, Adriaan - 2012

This paper analyzes the income distribution of the Dutch elderly using a microsimulation model. Microsimulation models allow for detailed estimates on the whole income distribution. Our model deviates from traditional models by explicitly considering the persistency and heteroskedasticity of...

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The Cognitive Impact of Social Activities in Older Age

Christelis, Dimitris - 2017

This study examines the causal effect of being socially active on old age cognition, using harmonized data from 18 European countries. We handle the endogeneity of social participation via nonparametric partial identification methods that bound the average treatment effect while using fairly...

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Do Wages Continue Increasing at Older Ages? Evidence on the Wage Cushion in the Netherlands

Deelen, Anja - 2014

In this study, we investigate the anatomy of older workers' wages. The central question is whether the wage cushion — i.e., the difference between actual wages and collectively agreed-upon (maximum) contractual wages — contributes to the fact that wages continue increasing at older ages. We...

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Satisfaction with Daily Activities after Retirement in Europe

Bonsang, Eric; van Soest, Arthur - 2012

This paper analyses the determinants of satisfaction with daily activities among retirees aged 65 years or older in eleven European countries. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe on self-assessed satisfaction with daily activities and anchoring vignettes to...

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