Journal of the Economics of Ageing最新文献

The causal effect of working from home on mental health of 50+ Europeans

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100560

Marco Bertoni , Danilo Cavapozzi , Giacomo Pasini , Caterina Pavese

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COVID-19 and domiciliary care utilisation: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100552

Anastasia Arabadzhyan , Nikita Jacob , Panagiotis Kasteridis , Anne Mason , Nigel Rice

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Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100551

Michał Myck , Monika Oczkowska , Ellam Kulati

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Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean☆

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100550

Beatrice Fabiani de Leva , Joan Costa-Font , Natalia Aranco , Marco Stampini , Pablo Ibarrarán

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Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100549

Petri Böckerman , Alex Bryson , Ilari Ilmakunnas , Pekka Ilmakunnas

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Declining financial and health literacy among older men and women

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100547

Patricia Boyle , Olivia S. Mitchell , Gary R. Mottola , Lei Yu

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Health information and health behaviours: Does new information on hypertension status matter?

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100548

Yuanyuan Ma , Anne Nolan

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Demographic changes and intergenerational reallocations in Brazil, 2003–2018

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100546

Charles H. Correa , Carlos Enrique Carrasco-Gutierrez , Cássio M. Turra

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Older individuals’ labour force participation during COVID-19

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2024.100545

Jing Cui

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When the abundance ends: Economic transformation, population aging, and shrinking lifecycle surplus in China

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Journal of the Economics of Ageing Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2024.100544

Feng Wang , Ke Shen , Yong Cai

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