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Why do children take care of their elderly parents? : are the Japanese any different?
Horioka, Charles; Gahramanov, Emin; Hayat, Aziz; Tang, Xueli - 2017
We conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of why children live with (or near) their parents and provide care and assistance to them using microdata from a Japanese household survey, the Osaka University Preference Parameter Study. We find that the Japanese are more likely to live with (or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650038
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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341780
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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295560
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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296974
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Fatal attraction? : extended unemployment benefits, labor force exits, and mortality
Kuhn, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916336
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Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality
Kuhn, Andreas - 2018
We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909970
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The Effect of Income on Mortality : New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
Ahammer, Alexander - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016323
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Can natural gas save lives? : evidence from the deployment of a fuel delivery system in a developing country
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2016
development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520955
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
Cesur, Resul - 2016
development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985288