Richard Blundell,Rachel Griffith,Peter Levell et al.
Richard Blundell et al.
The spread of COVID-19 has led to sweeping changes in the way households work, spend their time and shop, resulting in different shopping patterns and rapid price changes in some goods. How will changes such as these be reflected in headlin...
Retirement and Healthy Eating [0.03%]
退休与健康饮食
Martina Celidoni,Chiara Dal Bianco,Vincenzo Rebba et al.
Martina Celidoni et al.
This paper investigates the effect of retirement on healthy eating using data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We estimate the causal effect of retiring from work on daily fruit or vegetable consumpt...
What's on the Menu? Policies to Reduce Young People's Sugar Consumption [0.03%]
减糖从娃娃抓起：如何减少年轻人的食糖消费？
Rachel Griffith,Martin O&#x;Connell,Kate Smith et al.
Rachel Griffith et al.
Young people in the UK consume far above the maximum recommended levels of added sugar. It is likely that neither they nor their parents fully take account of the future health, social and economic costs of this high sugar consumption. This...
Mariacristina De Nardi,Eric French,John Bailey Jones et al.
Mariacristina De Nardi et al.
We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 and older. We find that medical expenses more than double between ages 70 and 90 and that they are very concentrated: the ...
Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study [0.03%]
美国医疗自付费用的证据：来自健康与退休追踪调查的数据
Sean Fahle,Kathleen McGarry,Jonathan Skinner
Sean Fahle
Margherita Borella,Mariacristina De Nardi,Eric French
Margherita Borella
Medicaid is a government programme that also provides health insurance to the elderly who have few assets and either low income or catastrophic health care expenses. We ask how the Medicaid rules map into the reality of Medicaid recipiency,...
Sokbae Lee,Hyunmin Park,Myung Hwan Seo et al.
Sokbae Lee et al.
Using the Reinhart-Rogoff dataset, we find a debt threshold not around 90 per cent but around 30 per cent, above which the median real gross domestic product (GDP) growth falls abruptly. Our work is the first to formally test for threshold ...
Health, Disability and Mortality Differences at Older Ages between the US and England [0.03%]
美国和英国老年人的健康、残疾和死亡率差异
James Banks,Soumaya Keynes,James P Smith
James Banks
This paper examines health status differences between England and the United States, with an emphasis on the implications of any health disparities for health care cost differences between the two countries. We first document health status ...
Facundo Alvaredo,Anthony B Atkinson,Salvatore Morelli
Facundo Alvaredo
The concentration of personal wealth is now receiving a great deal of attention - after having been neglected for many years. One reason is the growing recognition that, in seeking explanations for rising income inequality, we need to look ...
The Displacement Effect of Public Pensions on the Accumulation of Financial Assets [0.03%]
公共养老金对金融资产积累的挤出效应
Michael Hurd,Pierre-Carl Michaud,Susann Rohwedder
Michael Hurd
The generosity of public pensions may depress private savings and provide incentives to retire early. While there is plenty of evidence supporting the latter effect, there remains considerable controversy whether public pensions crowd out p...