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Can HIV alter the quantity-quality switch and delay the fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Gori, Luca; Lupi, Enrico; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2017

for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …-term positive trend in life expectancies. Despite the fact that SSA as a whole is suffering a delayed and slow fertility transition … compared to other world’s regions, and despite evidence for halting or even reverting fertility decline in countries with …

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Endogenous Depopulation And Economic Growth

Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2025

Fertility rates have declined dramatically across almost all highincome countries over the past decades. This has … incorporate an endogenous quantity/quality trade-off between fertility and human capital accumulation. This allows us to assess …

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Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China

Wang, Tianyu; Sun, Ruochen; Sindelar, Jody L.; Chen, Xi - 2024

Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the...

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Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China

Chen, Xi; Wang, Tianyu; Busch, Susan H. - 2018

We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest existing pension program in the world. Since its launch in 2009, more than 400 million Chinese have enrolled in the NRPS. We first describe plausible pathways through...

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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...

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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement

Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...

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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? Causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local community activities. Furthermore, while the positive...

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Pension and Health Services Utilization: Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China

Chen, Shanquan; Chen, Xi; Law, Stephen; Lucas, Henry; … - 2020

The proportion of people aged 60 years or over is growing faster than other age groups. The well-being older adults depend heavily on their state of health. This study evaluates the effects of pensions on older adults' health service utilization, and estimates the size of pension required to...

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Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults: A Research Note

Chen, Xi - 2022

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We then leverage the growing number of studies of the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on...

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