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Gender and Aging in the Developing World: Where Are the Men?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003-12)
The changing impact of the AIDS epidemic on older-age parents in the era of ART: Evidence from Thailand
(Springer, 2012-03)
Previous research makes clear that before antiretroviral therapy (ART), when HIV led to disabling illness and certain death, many older persons as parents of infected adults experienced adverse emotional, material and ...
Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming.
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2006-09)
This study analyzes the extent to which an individual’s survival expectations influence his or her decision to claim social security benefits at an early age. We find that subjective survival probabilities capture meaningful ...
Population Ageing and the Well-Being of Older Persons in Thailand: Past Trends, current situation and future challenges
(UNFPA Thailand and Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, 2008-12)
Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
We analyze newly available data from the Health and Retirement Study on senior citizens’ take-up of Medicare Part D and the associated SSA Low-Income Subsidy. We
find that economic factors – specifically, demand for ...
The Changing Well-Being of Thai elderly
(HelpAge International, 2013-04)
This report provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview concerning the situation of persons age 60 and over in Thailand. Chapters describe population aging in Thailand and government responses, social and demographic ...
Older-age parents and the AIDS epidemic in Thailand: Changing impacts in the era of Anti-Retroviral Therapy
(United Nations ESCAP, 2009)
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...
The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-10)
In this paper we used the Health and Retirement Study to examine the health and economic status of those who collect Social Security retirement benefits prior to the full retirement age. We used a propensity score reweighting ...