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The Poverty Reduction of Social Security and Means-Tested Transfers
This article is the fourth in a series to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ILR Review. The series features articles that analyze the state of research and future directions for important themes this journal has featured over many years of ...
Bruce D. Meyer, Derek Wu
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GOTCHA! Network-Based Fraud Detection for Social Security Fraud
We study the impact of network information for social security fraud detection. In a social security system, companies have to pay taxes to the government.
Véronique Van Vlasselaer+4 more
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Obesity is associated with an increased risk of contracting infections. This study aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 infection associated with obesity and to assess its role in the specific antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 in 2021.
Daniel Montes-Herrera+7 more
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The effect of religious belief on Chinese elderly health
Background With the accelerated ageing of the population in China, the health problems of elderly people have attracted much attention. Although religious belief has been shown to be a key way to improve the health of elderly people in various studies ...
Yucheng Chen, Yuxiao Zhao, Zengwen Wang
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]
[Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
International Social Security Association+1 more
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Background One of the risk factors for getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and reaching high mortality rates is older age. Older age is also associated with comorbidities, which are risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection.
María Elena Camacho-Moll+5 more
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Unvaccinated patients with comorbidities that impair the immune function, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, are more likely to develop severe COVID-19. The COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome has raised new concerns in intensive care ...
Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc+11 more
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Families and social security [PDF]
Abstract The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account for gender and marital status. We simulate the abolition of pay-as-you-go pension payments, calculate
Fehr, Hans+2 more
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The Mortality Effects of Retirement: Evidence from Social Security Eligibility at Age 62
Social Security eligibility begins at age 62, and approximately one third of Americans immediately claim at that age. We examine whether age 62 is associated with a discontinuous change in aggregate mortality, a key measure of population health.
Maria D. Fitzpatrick, T. Moore
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type ...
Antoine Dedry, Harun Onder, P. Pestieau
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