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Do the age profiles of health care expenditure really steepen over time? : new evidence from Swiss cantons
Felder, Stefan (contributor); Werblow, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
The "red herring" hypothesis contends that the high health care expenditure in old age is caused by proximity to death rather than calendar age. Dissenters point to longitudinal data and claim that health care expenditure age profiles tend to steepen over time. The present paper tests the...
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Pflege im Spannungsfeld von Angebot und Nachfrage
Hackmann, Tobias; Moog, Stefan - 2008
Currently nearly half of people eligible for long‐term care benefits in Germany are receiving informal care by family members. Accounting for the ongoing ageing process of society, an increasing labour participation rate of women and a rising part of old aged living alone, the question is if...
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Public spending on health and long-term care : a new set of projections ; a going for growth report
Maisonneuve, Christine de la; Oliveira-Martins, Joaquim - 2013
This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections till 2060, following up on the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from longterm care expenditure as well as the demographic from the non-demographic drivers, and refines...
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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure
Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor);  … - 2006 - Revised version
The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues. First, it presents new evidence on the relative importance of the two components of HCE that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier...
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The Effect of Age and Time to Death on Health Care Expenditures : The Italian Experience
Atella, Vincenzo - 2014
A large body of literature, mainly based on hospital costs, shows that time to death (TTD) is by far a better predictor of health spending than age. In this paper, we investigate if this finding holds true also in presence of outpatient costs (drugs, diagnostic tests and specialist visits). Our...
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The socio-economic module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE) : description, structure, and questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023
Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, including 15 countries from 2004 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445484
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Where people live and die makes a difference : individual and geographic disparities in well-being progression at the end of life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2010
Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...
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Older mothers' employment and marriage stability when the nest is empty
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, … - 2022
for France. Exploiting retirement laws for identification purposes, and taking a regression discontinuity approach, we … find that older women's retirement probability is positively associated with an empty nest. We also conclude that an empty … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest. …
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Couples' retirement under individual pension design : a regression discontinuity study for France
Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2016
Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate …'s unobserved heterogeneity. We conclude that the reform immediately reduced both spouses' retirement probability. The wife …'s retirement probability also drops by 1 to 4 percentage points if the husband is hit by the reform, and vice-versa. Instrumenting …
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