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waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six …
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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 …
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We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …
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. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …
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. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149131
We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …
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waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947288
trade, spurs hot debates on the challenges of a fast-aging population and the exploitation of the second demographic … dividend in today’s China. Literature related to elderly health in countries other than China often starts with medical … effects on the health of the elderly. This article reviews economic research on these topics and then discusses possible …
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We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using … children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then …
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In this paper, I suggest a novel explanation for a hump-shaped ageconsumption profile, based on human aging. The model … integrates health in the utility function and utilizes recent estimates on the effects of health on the marginal utility of …
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