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I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable, while Switzerland or Austria always have relatively equal...
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The role of informal carers in long-term care sheds light on the struggle related to population ageing and the increasing incidence of chronic disease. However, despite the increasing number of informal carers, most of them experienced the burden of caregiving. Since various policies have been...
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to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and …
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One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...
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Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...
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The many facets of retirement have been studied widely by economists. However, the effect of retirement on marriage … stability has been ignored in the literature. Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual time allocation that may … transition into retirement. We study the effect of retirement on marriage outburst rates using observations on over 200 000 …
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retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. -- Retirement ; training …
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retirees. It also examines how the retirement and health care of older citizens might be financed, and measures the potential … Elderly. -- Economics of Aging ; Retirement and Health Care Programs ; Government Spending on Elderly ; Fiscal Pressures of …
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of retirement among women aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The …/or part-time – between career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that older women – especially those … in lower-wage jobs – often seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge jobs are not in the …
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retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an … career and retirement. It has been demonstrated in a series of studies that a large proportion (as many as two-thirds) of … older men – especially those in lower-wage jobs – seek such bridge jobs before retirement. And in many cases these bridge …
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