Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal …

mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no … associations between the abilities and mortality. However, for low income earners and individuals without a college education …

income, and the probable mechanism is health affecting the labour supply of the individual. In addition the study report that …

analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in … individual drug utilization. Whereas the education gradient for men is quantitative in its orientation (education affects number … of drugs used), the gradient for women is both quantitative and qualitative (education affects mean cost of drugs). For …

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

of the most dramatic changes in the retirement income system over the last two decades has been a decline in traditional … Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans and a sharp rise in Defined Contribution (DC) pensions. Using data from the Federal Reserve … 1983 to 2001, very much in line with income inequality. Moreover, whereas median net worth climbed substantially from 1983 …

retirement income is judged in relation to some absolute standard (for example, the poverty threshold) and preretirement income … expected retirement income grew robustly from 1989 to 2001 (by 38 percent in real terms) and the share with expected retirement … income less than twice the poverty line fell by 5 percentage points. The percentage-point decline was even greater for …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of …

Projections show public pensions to take an increasing share of GDP. This has lead to increased activity in the reform …