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Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers

Bertoni, Marco - 2016

By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for individual health. Using the exogenous variation in...

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The Cross-Section of Asia-Pacific Mortality Dynamics : Implications for Longevity Risk Sharing

Biffis, Enrico - 2016

We study the dynamics of longevity risk across a subset of countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. We use hand-collected and existing data on mortality rates from emerging and developed economies, to understand how secular changes in mortality vary within and across APAC countries. We use...

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Life, Death, and Medicare Fraud : The Corruption of Hospice and What the Private Public Partnership Under the Federal False Claims Act is Doing About It

Barger, James - 2016

Once a humble, beloved, charity-based arm of the healthcare industry, hospice is now a multi-billion dollar industry, funded almost exclusively by Medicare, run by for-profit corporations answering to private equity investors and Wall Street, and more and more frequently plagued by fraud and...

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The Changing Economic Status of U.S. Disabled Men : Trends and Their Determinants, 1982-1991

Haveman, Robert; Holden, Karen; Wolfe, Barbara; Smith, Paul - 2000

We track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits in 1980-81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991. We present measures of the economic well-being of disabled individuals and their...

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Who are Needed, Thieves or Doctors : Armed Civil Conflicts in Darfur and Impacts on Education in Refugees Camps

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2012

The study presented here depends on a field survey of refugees' camps in war strifed Darfur region. The data are genuine from people and children. The expelling of NGOs from the region was a moral shock to the whole world, but in Darfur, it was a humanitarian catastrophe affecting the...

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American Longevity : Past, Present, and Future

Preston, Samuel H. - 2011

How long we live, and how long members of our families and social groups live, is extraordinarily important to us. It's not a subject of daily discussion, but it would be if we were threatened with a return to earlier conditions. Unfortunately, the subject of longevity falls between the cracks...

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Income and Longevity Revisited : Do High-Earning Women Live Longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

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Grandmothers and Graddaughters : Old Age Pension and Intra-Household Allocation in South Africa

Duflo, Esther - 2010

women had a large impact on the anthropometric status of girls (it improved their weight given height by 1.19 standard …

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Capacity, Conflict, and Change : Elder Law and Estate Planning Themes in an Aging World

Pearson, Katherine C. - 2013

The 2012-13 Symposium Issue of the Penn State Law Review arose out of collaboration between two sections of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) for the Annual Meeting in January 2013. The leadership of the Section on Trusts and Estates and the Section on Aging and the Law called for...

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Can pensions save lives? : evidence from the introduction of old-age assistance in the UK

Jäger, Philipp - 2023

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a quasi-natural experiment. Exploiting the newly created pension eligibility age through a difference-in-difference as well as an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality...

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