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American HALE at Midlife : An Analysis Based on HRS

Kim, Jihye; Lahiri, Kajal - 2022

health conditions from Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over 2000-2016. The approach allows us to evaluate the importance of …

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Cognitive misperception and chronic disease awareness : evidence from blood biomarker data

Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023

obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Nationally representative blood biomarkers identify …

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Cognitive misperception and chronic disease awareness : evidence from blood biomarker data

Lin, Zhuoer; Fu, Mingqi; Chen, Xi - 2023

obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Nationally representative blood biomarkers identify …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540582

Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care : Evidence from the Military

Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...

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The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health : Evidence from Administrative Data

Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

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Investments in Health and the Retirement Decision

Chapman, Kenneth; Hariharan, Govind - 2005

This paper develops the first formal analysis of this length of retired life by incorporating retirement and Social … interdependencies between length of life and retirement age (some of it identified in recent literature (Waldron 2001)). Using data from … the Longitudinal Retirement History Survey, we find that greater benefits increase age at death by about half as much as …

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The Effects of Vocational Rehabilitation for People Who are Blind or Vision-Impaired

Clapp, Christopher M.; Pepper, John V.; Schmidt, Robert M. - 2023

We construct a structural model of participation in vocational rehabilitation and labor market outcomes for people with vision impairments. There are multiple services to choose among, and each has different effects on employment and earnings. We estimate negative effects for most service types,...

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Demand for Quality in the Presence of Information Frictions : Evidence from the Nursing Home Market

Cheng, Alden - 2023

This paper studies consumers' demand for quality in the nursing home market, where information frictions are a source of concern. Using administrative data on the universe of nursing home residents, I estimate quality of nursing homes in California, and use these estimates as inputs into a...

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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study

Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...

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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, including 15 countries from 2004 to …

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