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program targeted to schistosomiasis in China to identify the long-term impacts of early-life health on adult outcomes. We find …
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Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...
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regression is used to analyse the effects of socio-demographic, economic, health, instrumental activities of daily living, family … satisfaction include respondent's sex, education, place of residence, self-rated health status, cognitive ability (using mini …=-0.068, 95%CI = -.093--.043), and depression (ß=-0.463, 95%CI = -.644--.282), the overall effect of self-rated health …
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment to test whether active choice framing impacts US Army service members' decision to transfer benefits. Individuals who received email messages framing GI Bill use...
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education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in …-percentage points in reporting fair or poor health, 1-percentage points for underweight and 1.5-percentage points for smoking … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the …
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Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …
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regression is used to analyse the effects of socio-demographic, economic, health, instrumental activities of daily living, family … satisfaction include respondent's sex, education, place of residence, self-rated health status, cognitive ability (using mini …=-0.068, 95%CI = -.093--.043), and depression (ß=-0.463, 95%CI = -.644--.282), the overall effect of self-rated health …
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Higher life expectancy and rapidly aging populations have led to the introduction of pension programs in developing countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in China, we estimate the effects of pension benefits on individual cognition, measured by episodic...
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Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497833
families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …
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