The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They also foster a brake on economic development. It was these twin concerns that led the international community to put health...

Global Health Initiatives (GHIs) have ushered in revolutionary changes in the international public health architecture, providing clinical services that would have been unthought of a decade ago. But, the news is not all good. The more GHIs try to do, the clearer it becomes how much their work...

This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...

It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data sets. This problem is exacerbated when a model...

The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner...

The content of this document is only and only an interface – a synthetic one – between any (e-)reader – seeking a kind of partnership/membership to a collectively responsible entity engaged into scientific research focused on a ‘better near/next world’, respectively just this...

Informal care may substitute for formal long-term care that is often publicly funded or subsidized. The costs of informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of...

The entitled theme of the project [focused on Generosity–Creativity–Solidarity Triad and Energy Security] stands in a way apart from the actual tragic context of war in Ukraine, and on war as a broader tragic stance of our humankind. Not to point more on the long-term dramatic COVID19...

An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average,...