Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the mid-aged and elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS national baseline data [0.03%]
基于CHARLS基线数据的中国中老年人健康状况与社会经济地位的关系研究
Xiaoyan Lei,Xiaoting Sun,John Strauss et al.
Xiaoyan Lei et al.
Using a very rich set of health indicators that include both self-reported measures and biomarkers from the CHARLS national baseline data, we document health conditions of the Chinese mid-aged and elderly, examine correlations between these...
Ke Shen,Wang Feng,Yong Cai
Ke Shen
This paper empirically examines gender inequality in benefiting from public education, health care and pension transfers over the lifecycle in China. Based on data from the 2010 wave of China Family Panel Studies and government statistics, ...
Family transfers and long-term care: An analysis of the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) [0.03%]
家庭照料与长期护理：对世界卫生组织开展的关于全球老龄化和成人健康研究的分析
Adrianna Murphy,Paul Kowal,Marco Albertini et al.
Adrianna Murphy et al.
Background: Populations globally are ageing, resulting in increased need for long-term care. Where social welfare systems are insufficient, these costs may fall to other family members. We set out to estimate the associat...
The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China [0.03%]
社会养老金对代际关系的影响——来自中国的证据
Xi Chen,Karen Eggleston,Ang Sun
Xi Chen
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all counties with over 400 million people enrolled. This implementation of the largest social pension program in the world offers a ...
Juan Carlos Conesa,Daniela Costa,Parisa Kamali et al.
Juan Carlos Conesa et al.
This paper develops an overlapping generations model to study the macroeconomic effects of an un-expected elimination of Medicare. We find that a large share of the elderly respond by substituting Medicaid for Medicare. Consequently, the go...
The Macroeconomic and Welfare Implications of Rural Health Insurance and Pension Reforms in China [0.03%]
中国农村健康保险和养老制度改革的宏观经济与福利效应
Neha Bairoliya,David Canning,Ray Miller et al.
Neha Bairoliya et al.
We assess the potential impact of rural health insurance and pension reforms on macroeconomic outcomes and social welfare in a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to the Chinese economy. We analyze transition paths as well as stead...
Changes in Spending and Labor Supply in Response to a Social Security Benefit Cut: Evidence from Stated Choice Data [0.03%]
来自声明选择数据的证据：社会保障福利削减对支出和劳动力供给变化的影响
Adeline Delavande,Susann Rohwedder
Adeline Delavande
We investigate how individuals in the U.S. expect to adjust their labor force participation and savings if Social Security benefits were cut by 30 percent. Respondents were asked directly what they would do under this scenario. Using the re...
Emma Aguila,Arie Kapteyn,Caroline Tassot
Emma Aguila
Aging populations and the prevalence of poverty in old age have led to the introduction of noncontributory pensions in many countries. We consider a number of alternative targeting approaches and simulate their effects in an empirical appli...
Julius Ohrnberger,Eleonora Fichera,Matt Sutton
Julius Ohrnberger
Mental and physical aspects are both integral to health but little is known about the dynamic relationship between them. We consider the dynamic relationship between mental and physical health using a sample of 11,203 individuals in six wav...
Forecasting Trends in Disability in a Super-Aging Society: Adapting the Future Elderly Model to Japan [0.03%]
预测超级老龄化社会的残疾趋势：将未来老年人模型适应日本
Brian K Chen,Hawre Jalal,Hideki Hashimoto et al.
Brian K Chen et al.
Japan has experienced pronounced population aging, and now has the highest proportion of elderly adults in the world. Yet few projections of Japan's future demography go beyond estimating population by age and sex to forecast the complex ev...