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In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its development is intertwined with the major aging trends around the world. This discussion includes the origins of the HRS model, the main distinguishing features of the HRS-type...
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real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …
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understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … to either a polio outbreak, or to introduction of the vaccine against the disease, had long-term impacts on adult income … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …
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substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …
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We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …
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hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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