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Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing
Aoki, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality …. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in midwestern Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of …
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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …
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Some notes on how to catch a red herring - Ageing, time-to-death and care costs for older people in Sweden
Karlsson, Martin; Klohn, Florian - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2011
-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves …
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Alternde Bevoelkerung und Gesundheitsausgaben, Eine theoretische Analyse demographischer Ausgabeneffekte auf den Beitragssatz der GKV
Cassel, Dieter; Postler, Andreas - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 5+6, pp. 578-602
Relevant publications discuss the relation between the demographic process and per-capita health care expenditures (HCE) in a controversial manner. This concerns theory as well as the results of empirical research. Therefore, this paper discusses the influence of an ageing population on HCE in a...
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The Factors Affecting the Use of Elderly Care and the Need for Resources by 2030 in Finland
Räty, Tarmo; Luoma, Kalevi; Mäkinen, Erkki; Vaarama, Marja - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2003
A nation-wide interview survey data is used to analyse by means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly. With these models and the age profile of the institutional care, we have made projections of...
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A comparative study of well-being for elders in Mexico and England
Guzman, David Vázquez - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2012
This paper establishes econometrically a clear connection between levels of happiness, health and cognition with their respective levels of income, using Mexican (MHAS) and English (ELSA) data. In general, elderly people increase their happiness with income, education, with a partner and when...
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Should We Care that They Care? Grandchild Care and Its Impact on Grandparent Health
Reinkowski, Janina - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of occasional grandchild care on grandparent healthusing the pan-European dataset SHARE on elderly people. We find a small but statisticallysignificant positive correlation between grandchild care and physical health, cognitivefunctioning and mental health....
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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations
Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884277
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¡°Fertility effect¡± or ¡°supporting effect?¡± ¡ªQuantity of children and parental health
Guodong, CHEN; Xiaoyan, LEI - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 4 (2009) 4, pp. 601-616
Using the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we try to identify the effect that quantity of children has on the health statuses of elderly parents. After dealing with a potential endogeneity problem using instrumental variable estimation, we find no significant long-arm “fertility...
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Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment Status of European Mature Women
Crespo, Laura; Mira, Pedro - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 693-709
We study the prevalence of informal caregiving to elderly parents by their mature daughters in Europe and the links between parental health, intense (daily) caregiving, and the employment status of daughters. We group data from SHARE into three country pools (North, Central, and South), which...
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