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The rapid growth in obesity represents a major public concern. Although body weight tends to increase with age, the evolution of obesity over the lifecycle is not well understood. We use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how body weight changes with age...
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Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement...
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The specificities of the workforce with a migrant background are often neglected in studies of retirement. Similarly … systems—with a focus on retirement. The article argues that such effects are nonnegligible and are likely to have major policy …
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China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …
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As the gap between retirement resources and needs grows, many researchers have prescribed the antidote of working … than higher-SES households, and working longer may increase existing disparities in retirement durations. This paper uses … hypothetical retirement ages that hold constant for each SES group the 1979 ratios of time spent in retirement to time spent …
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