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University at Albany, State University of New York

2011

Older people

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Two-Sided Altruism, Social Insurance And Elderly Consumption, Yangyi Shan Jan 2011

Two-Sided Altruism, Social Insurance And Elderly Consumption, Yangyi Shan

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The purpose of this project is to examine the interaction of social insurance programs and family support for financing the elderly's consumption in an environment when agents exhibit two-sided altruism.


Different Patterns Among Caregivers In Their Utilization Of Formal Services And The Influence On Caregiver Burden And Health, Jeehoon Kim Jan 2011

Different Patterns Among Caregivers In Their Utilization Of Formal Services And The Influence On Caregiver Burden And Health, Jeehoon Kim

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This study examined how older adults and their primary family caregivers utilized formal services; and how formal service utilizations were associated with the caregiver's burden and health status. Conceptually, the caregiver's stress/appraisal model was modified by adopting a relation between formal and informal care from health economics or policy.


Self Assessed Health, Anchoring Vignettes, And Unobserved Heterogeneity In The Health And Retirement Study, Paul J. Noroski Jan 2011

Self Assessed Health, Anchoring Vignettes, And Unobserved Heterogeneity In The Health And Retirement Study, Paul J. Noroski

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation examines the subtleties inherent to socioeconomic models of health. The relative contributions of unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence in explaining the dynamics of health in the U.S. are controlled for as the average partial effects of socioeconomic status are estimated. In addition to these investigations, I use anchoring vignette data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate health perceptions in the U.S. and how they affect the comparability of self assessments of health across the population.