This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to examine the home care received by elderly in Western Europe. Specifically, we relate the demand for home care to the health status of the elderly household members and like previous studies find that health...

This paper investigates the timing of wealth transfers between generations. We develop an overlapping generations model in which each generation can borrow against its future income but not against expected bequest. As a result, generations relatively poorer than their parents may end up not...

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security programs and labor force...

Drawing on a natural experiment generated by prefecture-level centralization reforms in China in the early 2000s, we study whether a centralized system delivers better environmental outcomes in a developing country context. We examine the impact of centralization reforms on firm air pollution...

This paper investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic firms’ air pollution emissions in a developing country context. We provide quasi-natural experiment evidence from China, using a plausibly exogeneous relaxation of FDI regulations upon China’s WTO accession in...