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). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as … economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland's older population is the remarkably high proportion of … returned migrants, that is, former emigrants who have returned to live in Ireland. According to the TILDA data over 20 per cent …
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Given the critical role of neurocognitive development in early life, this study assesses how racial differences in early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition. Leveraging uniquely rich information on life history from the...
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Given the critical role of neurocognitive development in early life, this study assesses how racial differences in early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial disparities in late-life cognition. Leveraging uniquely rich information on life history from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557724
Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement...
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Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old age. Using the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the China Health and Retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463718
Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long- lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which PoB contributes to a wide range of domains of later-life cognitive function....
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health behaviours using data on older adults from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We employ concentration … incomes in both regions. In relation to physical activity, the magnitude of the inequality is higher for Northern Ireland … status tend to play a less pronounced role. In terms of Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland comparisons with respect to the …
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This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
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This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context of developing countries. It documents past developments, accounting for pre-industrial preconditions that might explain current differences in gender roles across societies....
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We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...
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