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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314838

The socio-economic module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE): Description, structure, and questionnaire

Boeckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2020

The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...

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The effects of day care on health during childhood: Evidence by age

Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Siflinger, Bettina - 2020

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various aspects of physical health, at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of comprehensive individual-level out-patient and inpatient health care register data from...

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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India

Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022

We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health

Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012

We provide new evidence on the causal mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive...

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The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

Bellés Obrero, Cristina; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Ye, Han - 2022

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …

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Who cares? Evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia

Mozhaeva, Irina - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 136-154

Despite increasing attention to long-term care (LTC) and related challenges in the Estonian social policy agenda, the distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and formal home care services and identify the...

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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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Utilisation of personal care services in Scotland: the influence of unpaid carers

Lemmon, Elizabeth - 2018

Unpaid carers may have an influence on the formal care utilisation of the cared for. Whether this influence is positive or negative will have important implications for the costs of formal care provision. The relationship between unpaid and formal care is of particular importance in Scotland,...

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