ArticleJournal of the economics of ageing2020
Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances.
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- Life-course risk factors are associated with activity of daily living disability in older adults.European journal of public health · 2021Article
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- Factors Associated With Positive Self-Rated Health: Comparing Older Adults in Brazil and in Portugal.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they have little control. We evaluate comprehensive dimensions of health ranging from cognitive health, mental health, physical health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality in old age across multiple health outcomes. Second, while both
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