The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

2013 - 2025

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

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2020, volume 15, articles C

Do partners of severely disabled elderly protect against nursing home entry? Evidence from a French cohort

Louis Arnault, Jean-François Dartigues, Catherine Helmer, Karine Pérès and Jérôme Wittwer

Protecting the elderly and children in times of crisis: An analysis based on National Transfer Accounts

Meritxell Solé, Guadalupe Souto, Elisenda Renteria, Giorgos Papadomichelakis and Concepció Patxot

Profile of hospitalised elderly patients in Belgium—Analysis of factors affecting hospital costs

Julie De Foor, Christelle Senterre, Pol Leclercq, Dimitri Martins and Magali Pirson

Economic development and long-term care provision by families, markets and the state

Akira Yakita

Age of managers and employees – Firm survival

Mikaela Backman and Charlie Karlsson

Two decades of the complementary leisure effect in Spain

Carlos Pérez, Ángel Martín-Román and Alfonso Moral

Working hours mismatch, job strain and mental health among mature age workers in Australia

Riyana Miranti and Jinjing Li

Leaving money on the table? Suboptimal enrollment in the new social pension program in China

Xi Chen, Lipeng Hu and Jody L. Sindelar

The gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in Europe

Bernhard Hammer, Sonja Spitzer, Lili Vargha and Tanja Istenič

Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion: Evidence from community-living older adults in China

Elizabeth Bradley, Xi Chen and Gaojie Tang

2019, volume 14, articles C

Population change and the regional distribution of physicians

Michael Kuhn and Carsten Ochsen

Labor supply and fiscal effects of partial retirement – The role of entry age and the timing of pension benefits

Peter Haan and Songül Tolan

Mortality in midlife for subgroups in Germany

Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid and Julia Schmieder

Health disparities and the socioeconomic gradient in elderly life-cycle consumption

Ray Miller, Neha Bairoliya and David Canning

How does population ageing impact on personal income taxes and social security contributions?

Doris Prammer

Access to health care, medical progress and the emergence of the longevity gap: A general equilibrium analysis

Ivan Frankovic and Michael Kuhn

Expansion of public transfers in China: Who are the beneficiaries?

Feng Wang, Ke Shen and Yong Cai

The relationship between lifetime out-of-pocket medical expenditures, dementia, and socioeconomic status in the U.S

Peter Hudomiet, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

I shouldn’t eat this donut: Self-control, body weight, and health in a life cycle model

Holger Strulik

Long-run improvements in human health: Steady but unequal

Ana Lucia Abeliansky and Holger Strulik

Health inequalities in the South African elderly: The importance of the measure of social-economic status

Carlos Riumallo-Herl, David Canning and Chodziwadziwa Kabudula

The long-term impact of functional disability on hospitalization spending in Singapore

Cynthia Chen, Jue Tao Lim, Ngee Choon Chia, Lijia Wang, Bryan Tysinger, Julie Zissimopoulos, Ming Zhe Chong, Zhe Wang, Gerald Choon Huat Koh, Jian-Min Yuan, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Kee Seng Chia, Alex R Cook, Rahul Malhotra, Angelique Chan, Stefan Ma, Tze Pin Ng, Woon-Puay Koh, Dana Goldman and Joanne Yoong

Health effects of caring for and about parents and spouses

Judith Bom, Pieter Bakx, Frederik Schut and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Economic effects of demographic dividend in Brazilian regions

Diogo Baerlocher, Stephen L. Parente and Eduardo Rios-Neto

Determinants of health-care costs in the oldest-old in Germany

Christian Brettschneider, Andre Hajek, Susanne Röhr, Angela Fuchs, Dagmar Weeg, Silke Mamone, Jochen Werle, Kathrin Heser, Tina Mallon, Janine Stein, Michael Pentzek, Horst Bickel, Birgitt Wiese, Siegfried Weyerer, Michael Wagner, Hendrik van den Bussche, Wolfgang Maier, Martin Scherer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller and Hans-Helmut König

The role of self-employment in Ireland’s older workforce

Anne Nolan and Alan Barrett

Is there a connection between welfare regimes and inter-age reallocation systems?

Tanja Istenič, Lili Vargha and Jože Sambt

Indirect costs of adult pneumococcal disease and productivity-based rate of return to PCV13 vaccination for older adults and elderly diabetics in Denmark

J.P. Sevilla, Andrew Stawasz, Daria Burnes, Peter Bo Poulsen, Reiko Sato and David E. Bloom

Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? Evidence from rural China

Plamen Nikolov and Alan Adelman

Fiscal sustainability in Japan: What to tackle?

Selahattin İmrohoroğlu, Sagiri Kitao and Tomoaki Yamada

2019, volume 13, articles C

The policy challenges of financing longevity—A perspective from Japan pp. 10-13

Hirotaka Unami

One size fits all? Drawdown structures in Australia and The Netherlands pp. 14-27

Jennifer Alonso-García and Michael Sherris

Perspective piece on “One size fits all? Drawdown structures in Australia and The Netherlands,” by Jennifer Alonso García and Michael Sherris pp. 28-29

Lee Lockwood

The distribution of pension wealth in Europe pp. 30-42

Javier Olivera

Perspective piece on “The distribution of pension wealth in Europe” by Javier Olivera pp. 43-44

Pierre-Carl Michaud

Transfers in an aging European Union pp. 45-54

Fanny A. Kluge, Joshua R. Goldstein and Tobias C. Vogt

Perspective piece on “Transfers in an Aging European Union” by Fanny A. Kluge, Joshua R. Goldstein and Tobias C. Vogt pp. 55-55

Elsa Fontainha

Organizing old age pensions for India’s unorganized workers: A case study of a sector-driven approach pp. 56-69

M.R. Narayana

Perspective piece on “Organizing old age pensions for India’s unorganized workers: A case study of a sector-driven approach”, by Narayana Muttur Ranganathan pp. 70-71

Anita Mukherjee

Trends in health and retirement in Latin America: Are older workers healthy enough to extend their working lives? pp. 72-83

Laeticia R. De Souza, Bernardo L. Queiroz and Vegard F. Skirbekk

Perspective piece on “Trends in health and retirement in Latin America: Are older workers healthy enough to extend their working lives?” by Laeticia De Souza, Bernardo Queiroz, and Vegard Skirbekk pp. 84-85

David Lam

Cognitive decline and household financial decisions at older ages pp. 86-101

Marco Angrisani and Jinkook Lee

Perspectives on “Cognitive decline and household financial decisions at older ages” by Marco Angrisani and Jinkook Lee pp. 102-102

Keith Jacks Gamble

Access to long term care after a wealth shock: Evidence from the housing bubble and burst pp. 103-110

Joan Costa-Font, Richard G. Frank and Katherine Swartz

Perspective piece on “Access to long term care after a wealth shock: Evidence from the housing bubble and burst” by Joan Costa Font, Richard Frank, and Katherine Swartz pp. 111-112

Corina Mommaerts

Changes in the morbidity prevalence and morbidity-free life expectancy of the elderly population in China from 2000 to 2010 pp. 113-121

Bei Lu, Xiaoting Liu, Jonathan Lim and Mingxu Yang

Perspective piece on “Changes in the morbidity prevalence and morbidity-free life expectancy of the elderly population in China, 2000–2010” by Bei Lu, Xiaoting Liu, Mingxu Yang, and Jonathan Lim pp. 122-123

Feng Wang

2018, volume 12, articles C

The return to education in terms of wealth and health pp. 1-14

Holger Strulik

Preparation for old age in France: The roles of preferences and expectations pp. 15-23

Bénédicte Apouey

Who supports intergenerational redistribution policy? Evidence from old-age allowance system in Thailand pp. 24-34

Worawet Suwanrada, Pataporn Sukontamarn and Busarin Bangkaew

Pension decrement rates across Europe – Are they too low? pp. 35-45

Christoph Freudenberg, Natalie Laub and Tim Sutor

Impact of volunteering on cognitive decline of the elderly pp. 46-60

Sumedha Gupta

Decomposition of demographic effects on the german pension system pp. 61-76

Robert Fenge and François Peglow

Intra-household allocation of non-mandatory retirement savings pp. 77-87

Christoph Metzger

Why older workers become entrepreneurs? International evidence using fuzzy set methods pp. 88-95

Jorge Velilla, José Alberto Molina and Raquel Ortega

A cross-country analysis of population aging and financial security pp. 96-117

Angela C. Lyons, John E. Grable and So-Hyun Joo

Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices pp. 118-134

Oded Stark and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

The effect of the New Rural Social Pension Insurance program on the retirement and labor supply decision in China pp. 135-150

Lei Shu

Long-term care partnerships: Are they fit for purpose? pp. 151-158

Savannah Bergquist, Joan Costa-Font and Katherine Swartz

Specific measures for older employees and late career employment pp. 159-174

Bernhard Boockmann, Jan Fries and Christian Göbel

A structural analysis of the effects of the Great Recession on retirement and working longer by members of two-earner households pp. 175-182

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

An active lifestyle and cognitive function: Evidence from China pp. 183-191

Dusanee Kesavayuth, Yufang Liang and Vasileios Zikos

Family transfers and long-term care: An analysis of the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) pp. 195-201

Adrianna Murphy, Paul Kowal, Marco Albertini, Bernd Rechel, Somnath Chatterji and Kara Hanson

International projections of age specific healthcare consumption: 2015–2060 pp. 202-217

Carl N. Mason and Timothy Miller

The hidden economics of informal elder-care in the United States pp. 218-224

Michele Cecchini

The impact of social pensions on intergenerational relationships: Comparative evidence from China pp. 225-235

Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston and Ang Sun

Untapped work capacity among old persons and their potential contributions to the “silver dividend” in Japan pp. 236-249

Rikiya Matsukura, Satoshi Shimizutani, Nahoko Mitsuyama, Sang-Hyop Lee and Naohiro Ogawa

Do notional defined contribution schemes prolong working life? Evidence from the 1994 Swedish pension reform pp. 250-267

Haodong Qi, Jonas Helgertz and Tommy Bengtsson