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 Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

We estimate the direct causal effect of loneliness on a variety of health outcomes using a sample of second …-generation immigrants among older adults drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. In an effort to account for the … suggest that loneliness has a significant impact on health, both mental and physical. Notably, our identification strategy …

payday. Rather than cognitive decline before payday, the deterioration of mental health and relative deprivation may play a … role. We find similar evidence among the Japanese elderly. …