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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 - Current version: April 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) and the health of older adults in China : a meta-analysis (2008–2023)

Shen, Chi; Chen, Xi - 2024

There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …-course approach and strategic interventions to enhance public health in an aging society. …

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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...

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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...

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Retirement decisions in the age of COVID-19 pandemic : are older employees in digital occupations working longer?

Gallo, Giovanni; Nagore, Amparo - 2025

This paper investigates the retirement response to the pandemic and to the resulting acceleration in the adoption of new technologies. Using the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions datasets and leveraging the natural experiment of many workers being forced to work from home...

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Are older workers willing to learn?

Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020

Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We …

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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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The retirement migration puzzle in China

Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Prettner, Klaus - 2020

We examine whether and how retirement affects migration decisions in China. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design approach combined with a nationally representative sample of 228,855 adults aged between 40 and 75, we find that retirement increases the probability of migration by 12.9...

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