and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

. As retirement is potentially endogenous with respect to cognition, instrumental variable (IV) methods are also used. The … estimations are used, the effect of retirement on cognition is negative but statistically insignificant. Differences between OLS …

association between retirement duration - defined as time elapsed since last job ended - and cognition. This association is …, however, very small when compared to the association of age or education with cognition. As retirement is potentially … endogenous to cognition, instrumental variable (IV) methods are also used. The instrument employed is the abolition of the so …