There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European … spring and summer (compared to autumn). At given age, they have developed about 3.5 percent more health deficits. The bulk of …

2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare …This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …

show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of … Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to … and non-hospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for … health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution. …

latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …