public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …

sources. The analysis aims at establishing how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and … income disparities across different age groups. Results are compared across nine OECD countries. …

This paper estimates the impact of income on the long-term care utilization of elderly Americans using a natural … positive permanent income shock lowers nursing home use but increases the utilization of paid home care services. We find some … estimates suggests that moderate reductions in post-retirement income would significantly alter long-term utilization patterns …

This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a … National Health Interview Surveys. The model estimates rule out even moderate effects of income on weight and on the …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. We …

ordinary least squares, instrumental variables estimates based on the notch suggest that lower-income retirees exhibit … considerable income sensitivity in their use of prescription drugs. Our estimates are potentially useful for thinking about the …

There is widespread and longstanding agreement that life expectancy and income are positively correlated. However, it … has proven much more difficult to establish a causal relationship since income and health are jointly determined. We use a … major change in the Social Security law as exogenous variation in income to examine the impact of income on mortality in an …