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American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19 : Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses

Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmad, … - 2022

With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...

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Older Men : Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2010

The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...

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Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

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Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults

Li, Yaxi - 2019

Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined the association of early life risk factors with frailty among older adults using a large,...

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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older …

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Ageing in a Long-Term Regeneration Neighbourhood : A Disruptive Experience or Successful Ageing in Place?

Kleinhans, Reinout - 2014

institutionalized care. A precondition for 'ageing in place' is that elderly people perceive their neighbourhoods as familiar and safe … places. In the Netherlands, many neighbourhoods with a rapidly ageing population have been subject to urban regeneration … that – even in times of economic crisis – regeneration in Hoogvliet has enabled 'ageing in place'. There appears no …

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School Starting Age, Maternal Age at Birth, and Child Outcomes

Fredriksson, Peter; Huttunen, Kristiina; Ockert, Bjorn - 2021

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the school entry cut-off give birth at higher...

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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey

McArdle, John Joseph - 2010

Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...

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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

ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project …

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Adverse Childhood Circumstances and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults : Lower Level or Faster Decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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