old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no … elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of … legacy of sex preference in fertility. We employ nationally representative data to examine the association between old …

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to … and non-hospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for … health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution. …

Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most observers agree that the … latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

Objectives: The study examines the relationship between childlessness and ten indicators of older Americans’ health …: self-reported health status, obesity, being underweight, limitations in performing ADL and instrumental ADL, limitations on … Health and Retirement Survey, the study estimates this relationship and compares findings from OLS, logit and propensity …

We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …