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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India : Household Data Analysis (1993-94 and 2004-05)
Chaudhri, Dharam Pal - 2011
relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women …
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Tackling Daughter Deficits in Tamil Nadu, India
Bedi, Arjun S.; Srinivasan, Sharada - 2008
of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216287
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Child Gender and Subjective Well-being of Older Parents in China
Lei, Lei; Wu, Fengyu; Xia, Yiming - 2023
life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489582
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What a drag it is getting old? : mental health and loneliness beyond age 50
Ours, Jan C. van - 2020
This paper studies mental health and loneliness in the Netherlands for individuals beyond age 50. The analysis is based on panel data over the period 2008 to 2018 and focuses on the effects of life events and aging. It appears that mental health gets worse and loneliness increases if individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315435
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Homeownership and the perception of material security in old age
Garten, Claudius; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022
Homeownership has been shown to be related to various aspects of well-being, although both the causal nature of this relationship and the possible channels behind it have been difficult to identify. We focus on one of the most often quoted mechanisms which could be responsible for the positive...
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The Effects of HIV Medications on the Quality of Life of Older Adults in New York City
Brent, Robert J - 2018
A three‐equation model is used to estimate the multiple effects of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) on the quality of life (QoL) of the elderly with HIV in New York City. The transmission mechanism involves the ARVs having a direct effect on QoL via the side effects of the medications and two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912008
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Widows' time, time stress and happiness: adjusting to loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2021
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517842
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What Happens to Happiness When People Get Older? Socio-Economic Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Later Life
Kolosnitsyna, Marina - 2015
The world population is ageing and this demographic trend has become the subject of numerous research projects and discussions. In Russia, this process has also become a topic for many studies examining socio-economic characteristics and health status of elderly, their retirement behaviours....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032053
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The multidimensional well-being of Asian senior citizens : a systematic review
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Destefanis, Alessia - 2024
Since the 1960s, global societies have experienced a decline in both fertility and mortality rates; this trend has led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516174
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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241567