Retirement's Effects on Physiological and Psychological Well-being among Elderly Chinese Público

Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and physical and mental health of old Chinese, and exams how such relationship changes between genders. Using the two longitudinal waves from China Health and Longitudinal Study and Ordinary Least Square models, we find a retirement has a significant and negative effect on physiological well-being, a significant and positive effect on physiological well-being. The effect enlarges for women's physical health and becomes small and insignificant for women's mental health. This heterogeneous effect may be the result of differences in early life factors, cognitive abilities, and power in the family.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction 1

II. Literature Review 3

III. Dataset & Methodology 8

IV. Results 17

V. Discussion 21

VI. Limitations 23

References 24

Appendix 27

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School	Emory College
Department	Economics
Degree	BS
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Economics, Labor
Palabra Clave	China Retirement Health
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Howard, David H, Emory University
Committee Members	Francis-Tan, Andrew, Emory University Ettinger, Bree, Emory University

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