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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans : New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations
Costa, Dora L.; Lewis, CoraLee; Yetter, Noelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477239
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age : comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241752
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and … evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248987
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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022
healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public … provision of health services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453768
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Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public … provision of health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462691
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Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap Between Adult Americans with and without a BA
Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287337
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Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults
Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy; Li, Jing - 2021
Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population …, education, psychosocial support, and improved decision-making regarding life planning, health care, and financial matters. Yet …. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246896
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Cognitive impairment and prevalence of memory-related diagnoses among U.S. older adults
Qian, Yuting; Chen, Xi; Tang, Diwen; Kelley, Amy S.; … - 2021
Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population …, education, psychosocial support, and improved decision-making regarding life planning, health care, and financial matters. Yet …. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431398
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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and … cognitive health. We also show that higher genetic risk is associated with worse economic outcomes on several dimensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512035