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Working in old age and health outcomes in Japan
Kajitani, Shinya - In: Japan and the World Economy 23 (2011) 3, pp. 153-162
How does working in old age affect health status? We examine the impacts of the working hours of elderly Japanese men on their health outcome, taking into account an endogeneity between work and health. Utilizing panel data on the Japanese elderly, we found that while Japanese elderly males...
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Understanding the Effect of Retirement on Health: Mechanisms and Heterogeneity
Eibich, Peter - In: Journal of Health Economics 43 (2015), pp. 1-12
This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. …
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Why Do Some Households Save So Little? A Rational Explanation
Leung, Siu Fai - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 3 (2000) 4, pp. 771-800
This paper offers an explanation for the puzzle of low wealth holdings among a significant fraction of the elderly. Instead of invoking irrational, non-rational, or non-optimal behavior to resolve the puzzle, it is shown that widespread low wealth holdings are consistent with a rational...
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The complex effects of retirement on health
Kuhn, Andreas - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to … foster improvements in retirees' health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … adopt unhealthy behaviors. Depending on the relative importance of the different mechanisms, retirement may either improve …
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Human resource management, social connectedness and health and well-being of older and retired men : the role of Men's Sheds
Ang, Siah Hwee; Cavanagh, Jillian; Southcombe, Amie; … - In: The international journal of human resource management 28 (2017) 14, pp. 1986-2016
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The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 103-118
We investigate long-run effects of World War II on socioeconomic status and health of older individuals in Europe. We analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009. SHARELIFE provides detailed data on events in childhood during and after the war...
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The future of health and long-term care spending
Maisonneuve, Christine de la; Martins, Joaquim Oliveira - In: OECD Journal: Economic Studies 2014 (2014) 1, pp. 61-96
This paper proposes a new set of public health and long-term care expenditure projections until 2060, following up on the previous set of projections published in 2006. It disentangles health from long-term care expenditure as well as the demographic from the non-demographic drivers, and refines...
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Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 193-213
In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public employees in California. We find that physician visits and prescription drug...
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The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk Protection
Shigeoka, Hitoshi - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 7, pp. 2152-84
This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity design to examine its effect on utilization, health, and financial risk arising from out-of-pocket expenditures. Due to the national policy, cost sharing is 60–80 percent lower at...
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Obesidad e hipertensión en los adultos mayores uruguayos
Pagano, Juan Pablo; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2009)
Este trabajo estudia los determinantes socioeconómicos de la obesidad, así como el impacto de ésta en la hipertensión de los adultos mayores (a partir de los sesenta años) de Montevideo, Uruguay, el país con la población más envejecida del hemisferio sur. Mediante la utilización de la...
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