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Grandparent caregiving has received increased attention in recent years, and grandparent-grandchild families have generated several public policy concerns, including whether grandparent-led families face barriers to obtaining public assistance. We address this question by comparing the welfare...
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The share of the elderly living with a child has decreased monotonically throughout the twentieth century, and this has been interpreted as a decline in the role of the family in providing old-age assistance. However, at the same time, the probability of reaching old age has increased...
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This research addresses the effect of prescription drug insurance coverage on the use and expenditures for prescription medications in the elderly.
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In this paper, we study the long-term determinants of insurance coverage among the elderly using a new data source, the 1990 Health Spplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
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Most elderly parents in Indonesia coreside with their adult children. However, preliminary studies provide some evidence that casts doubt on the presumed relationship between coresidence and receipt of support (Frankenberg et al. 1999; Cameron 2000). This paper uses qualitative case studies of...
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