The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

2013 - 2026

Current editor(s): D.E. Bloom, A. Sousa-Poza and U. Sunde

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2026, volume 34, articles C

Did seniors benefit from consumption and public transfers at the expense of youth? Evidence from National Transfer Accounts in Canada’s Provinces (1997–2017)

Marcel Mérette and Julien Navaux

Diabetes management in an ageing society: The role of nursing support in primary care

Marta Giachello, Cristina Ugolini and Rossella Verzulli

Informal caregiving and labor supply at older ages: Heterogeneity by firm-size before age 60

Tomohiko Moriyama

Genetic risk for ADHD and later-life health and wellbeing: individual and spousal spillovers

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil and Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

The impact of demographic change on aggregate final consumption: Japan’s experiences and prospects from a national accounting perspective

Franz Waldenberger

Governing for the Future? life expectancy and the politics of environmental investment

Vincenzo Alfano, Salvatore Capasso and Marcello Signorelli

Grandparents in Blue? The Impact of Grandparenthood on Mental Health and Healthcare Utilization in China

Zhuang Hao, Zhenhao Ning and Yi Zhang

Pensions in an ageing society – Strains and pains of becoming older together

David Miles

The impact of population aging on the household saving rate: the case of Japan

Charles Horioka

Je Ne Regrette Rien? Time-inconsistent health behavior and retirement planning

Holger Strulik and Katharina Werner

Valuing health: Philosophical perspectives

Ole F. Norheim

The dynamic effects of health on the employment of older workers: Impacts by gender, country, and race

Richard Blundell, Jack Britton, Monica Costa Dias, Eric French and Weijian Zou

Population ageing and the productivity of public capital: A panel cointegration analysis of Japanese prefectural data

Keigo Kameda, Zhenkun Lu, Masaki Fukui and Mao Chikahiro

Challenges for the private pension system in the UK and policy proposals to address them

Jonathan Cribb, Heidi Karjalainen and O’Brien, Laurence

Are older adults healthier than before? Global evidence on healthy aging

Bertrand Gruss, Eric Huang, Andresa Lagerborg, Diaa Noureldin and Galip Kemal Ozhan

Judging social priority and the marginal utility of income among individuals

James K. Hammitt

Comparative study of population ageing in France and Japan, some socio-economic implications

Jean-Marie Robine

Personal discount rates and financial resilience among older Americans

Robert L. Clark and Olivia S. Mitchell

Introduction to the special issue: the economics of ageing and longevity

Julian Ashwin, David Canning and Johanna Wallenius

Extending working lives in Japan: Evidence and lessons from an outlier

d’Albis, Hippolyte, Mélika Ben Salem and Ekrame Boubtane

Corrigendum to “Trade-offs in long-term care for older people in an ageing society: A constrained portfolio choice experiment” [J. Econ. Ageing 32 (2025) 100599]

Sander Boxebeld, Niek Mouter and Job van Exel

The shadow of culture: Clan traditions and biological aging in China

Yijie Wang and Donghong Xie

Are women preparing for old age? Evidence from Japan

Yoko Niimi

Paying into poverty? Out-of-pocket payments for home care and risk of catastrophic expenditures and poverty in Europe

Ricardo Rodrigues, Jonathan Cylus, Megumi Rosenberg and Sarah Barber

The economic consequences of exiting self-employment in later life

Jangyoun Lee and Taehee Oh

2026, volume 33, articles C

Employment and productivity in an ageing society: Japan in international perspective

Christophe André, Peter Gal and Matthias Schief

2025, volume 32, articles C

Introduction to this Special Issue: The Economics of Ageing

David E. Bloom and Andrew J. Scott

Decomposing longevity: How life expectancy changes around the world

Martin G. Haas and Uwe Sunde

Long-run patterns in the spousal correlation of lifespan

Jacob Hutchings, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Joshua Nicholls, Joseph Price and Sven E Wilson

How do women respond to increased care needs of their parents? The economic costs of informal caregiving

Jacek Barszczewski, Ricarda Milstein, Jinkook Lee and Ana Llena-Nozal

The macroeconomic impact of chronic disease in the United Kingdom

Yannick Schindler and Andrew J. Scott

When wealth hurts: Inheritances and the health of older Europeans

Ignacio Belloc, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

Demographic change, firm costs, and digital transformation

Gang Qiao and Ruipeng Tan

Navigating demographic challenges: The impact of increasing social contribution rates on tax revenue and distribution

Philipp Toussaint, Sebastian Schultis and Stefan Seuffert

The effect of the increase in social security’s full retirement age on unemployment among older adults

Halim Yoon

Who supports carbon pricing? Older adults’ financial literacy and attitudes toward carbon taxation

Joelle H. Fong, Yuhao Ba and Zhe Chen

Trend in length-of-stay in nursing homes: Evidence from the Netherlands

Peter Alders, Bram Wouterse and Frederik T. Schut

Lifecycle analysis of the gender gap in paid and unpaid work by household structure

Gemma Abio, Ció Patxot, Elisenda Rentería, Guadalupe Souto and Tanja Istenič

Driving human capital accumulation. The role of grandparents

Mauro Maria Baldi, Raffaella Coppier and Elisabetta Michetti

Trade-offs in long-term care for older people in an ageing society: A constrained portfolio choice experiment

Sander Boxebeld, Niek Mouter and Job van Exel

The impact of macroeconomic conditions on long-term care: Evidence on prices

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan and Mia Teschner

Japan at the forefront of the economics of aging? A bibliometric analysis

Sébastien Lechevalier and Brieuc Monfort

Aging workforce and industrial Robots: Industry-Level evidence from Japan

Fang Chen and Wenge Liu

Understanding social norms for women toward the elderly: Evidence from Japan

Hiroyuki Motegi

Who has benefited from nursing home expansion in Japan?: The effects of government supply-side intervention

Yoshinori Nishimura and Masato Oikawa

The effect of aging on entrepreneurship and aggregate productivity

Takeo Hoshi, Naomi Kodama and Huiyu Li

Comparing age-happiness relationships between Japan and Europe

Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani

Free health check-ups and chronic disease care among older adults in China

Zhiyong Huang and Fabrice Kämpfen

Macroeconomic and fiscal implications of changes in the labor share under population aging in Japan

Tomoaki Yamada

2025, volume 31, articles C

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

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

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

Marco Bertoni, Danilo Cavapozzi, Giacomo Pasini and Caterina Pavese

Occupations and retirement across countries

Philip Sauré, Arthur Seibold, Elizaveta Smorodenkova and Hosny Zoabi

Early-life transfers for education and marriage and children’s old-age support: Time or money?

Ziwei Rao, Max Groneck and Rob Alessie

Designing and implementing an older people-specific multidimensional poverty measure: An application to a middle-income country

Jhonatan Clausen, Nicolas Barrantes and Micaela Salcedo

Evaluating the relationship between income, survival and loss of autonomy among older Canadians

Marie Connolly, Marie-Louise Leroux and Akakpo Domefa Konou

Growing old in rural America: Measuring late-life health and economic well-being

Yuulin An, Sayorn Chin and Ray Miller

Social engagement and health in an aging society: Impact of Basic Old-Age Pension in Korea

Hoolda Kim

Longevity gains and the internal rate of return of PAYG pension plans – Evidence for 17 OECD countries

Bram Groenewoud and Eduard Ponds

Navigating healthcare for older adults after a chronic illness diagnosis: Evidence from China

Yuanyuan Ma, Wenyuan Zheng and Zhiyong Huang

Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers

Herman Kruse and Andreas S. Myhre

Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions

Friedrich Breyer, Christian Breunig, Mark Kapteina, Guido Schwerdt and Maj-Britt Sterba

Direct and spillover effects of long-term care insurance on Chinese elderly frailty

Lin Lin, Min He and Peng Nie

Ageing and the allocation of time among older Americans

Maddalena Ferranna

Biological age across the globe: 1990–2019

Casper Hansen and Holger Strulik

Aging and age selectivity: Exploring differences across time and space

Sergei Scherbov and Warren Sanderson

The evolution of age-friendly jobs in a rapidly ageing economy

Hyeongsuk Kim, Chulhee Lee and Karen Eggleston

Aging and work capacity

Italo Lopez Garcia, Nicole Maestas and Kathleen Mullen

Population aging, living arrangements, and inequality: The role of familial transfers in South Korea

Hyun Kyung Kim and Sang-Hyop Lee

Exclusion from a ‘mandatory’ pension scheme: Late-stage dropouts from the National Pension System in South Korea

Jongseok Oh, Seho Son and Kun Lee