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Published: 01 February 2024
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Lisa Cameron Abstract This paper is the first study of which the author is aware that examines elderly Indonesians’ residency decisions. The 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey provides detailed data on the living children of a sample of elderly individuals. This allows a nested logit...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 209–230.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Fig. 1 Spatial distribution of the mortality rate of elderly individuals and flooding depth ...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 209–226.
Published: 01 May 1993
...; it provides information on household economic and housing conditions, demographic characteristics of the elderly respondents, number and type of living kin, employment, individual income and receipts, sources of support, social relationships and activities, health status, preparation for old age, and opinions...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1353–1376.
Published: 01 August 2022
... translate into future caregiving-for-bequests when parents become elderly, and may thus have broader implications for both individual and societal well-being. Hypothesis 4a : Parents who pay for domestic services respond similarly as those who do not to children's coresidence and material support...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 661–678.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... They were interviewed in 1982 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE). Ideal profiles based on functional disabilities, chronic diseases, and selected biomedical and behavioral risk factors are constructed empirically. Each individual in the sample...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 May 1999
... performing house-work, and monetary transfers to noncoresident elderly parents. We focus on the effects of wage rates and parental characteristics on the allocation decisions of adult children and their households concerning these four demands. We find that households with individuals earning high wages rely...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1593–1613.
Published: 18 May 2013
... populations is far from exhaustive. Following the first pioneer studies by the upholders of the modernization theory (Burgess 1916 ; Goode 1963 ; Le Play 1884 ), which support the thesis of a strong negative relationship between economic development and family complexity, elderly individuals living...
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Published: 06 June 2015
Fig. 8 Monthly benefits received in 1983 and 2004 for non-elderly, nondisabled childless individuals and families by private income level. All values are in 2009 CPI-U-RS dollars
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
Published: 01 August 2009
... using a unique data set of 475,313 elderly couples who were followed up for up to nine years. We address whether the transition to widowhood affects the quality of care that individuals receive and explore the extent to which these changes mediate the elevated mortality hazard for the widowed. We...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 79–96.
Published: 01 February 2010
... the probability of experiencing obesity-related chronic diseases among individuals with high BMI is larger for the U. S. elderly, the relative risk of dying conditional on experiencing these diseases is higher in Mexico. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Obesity Excess...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1935–1956.
Published: 25 September 2018
... to which this is driven by reporting tendencies, we use anchoring vignettes to test and correct for reporting heterogeneity in health among elderly South Africans. Significant reporting differences across wealth groups are detected. Poorer individuals rate the same health state description more positively...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 February 1992
... and the Rise of the Primary Individual in the U.S . Demography , 13 , 127 – 38 . 10.2307/2060425 Kobrin , Frances ( 1981 ). Family Extension and the Elderly: Economic, Demographic, and Family Cycle Factors . Journal of Gerontology , 36 , 370 – 77 . Lacayo , Carmela G. ( 1980...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 215–226.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Medicare projections forecast that the elderly popula- tion will be less healthy and more costly over the next century. This prediction stems from the use of age as an indicator of health sta- tus: increases in longevity are assumed to increase demand for health care as individuals survive to older...
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 387–403.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of the primary individual in the U. S. Demography 13: 127-138. 1976b. The primary individual and the family: Changes in living arrangements since 1940. Tournai of Marriage and Family 8:233-238. 1981. Family extension of the elderly: Economic, demographic, and family cycle factors. Tournai of Gerontology 36:370...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 341–359.
Published: 22 January 2018
...Ana Lucia Abeliansky; Holger Strulik Abstract We analyze human aging —understood as health deficit accumulation—for a panel of European individuals, using four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE data set) and constructing a health deficit index. Results from log...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 193–209.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Samuel H. Preston; Irma T. Elo; Ira Rosenwaike; Mark Hill Abstract In this paper we investigate the quality of age reporting on death certificates of elderly African-Americans. We link a sample of death certificates of persons age 65+ in 1985 to records for the same individuals in U.S. censuses...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 August 1998
... of education on changes in physical functioning in a rapidly developing country. Data come from the 1989 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan and a follow-up interview in 1993 (N = 4,049, age = 60+). Individuals are conceptualized to be in a state of functional independence or functional...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 287–297.
Published: 01 August 1999
... landscape: Private financial transfers are used to in- fluence human capital investments (Becker and Tomes 1979) and to help households overcome borrowing constraints (Cox 1990). Intra- and interhousehold transfers are also used to fulfill families' insurance roles: For frail elderly individuals, informal...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 221–236.
Published: 01 May 2000
... or unreliable for nearly half of the elderly individuals in the sample (Ruggles 1996:255). Kramarow (1995) employs an alterna- tive proxy for income, using average annual earnings of workers in the state in which the elderly individual lived. Our measures of Social Security income and potential welfare benefits...
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