Pinto, Guido Working paper no. 2014-04 Abstract To assess the magnitude of the relationship between obesity and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) among Mexican elderly population. Material and Methods Data from the 2001, 2003, and 2012 Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) was used and estimates were obtained using multivariate logit regression methods for panel data. …
Palloni, Alberto, and James Yonker Working paper no. 2014-07
Palloni, Alberto, Sebastian Daza, Elizabeth Arias, and Ezekiel J. EmanuelWorking paper no. 2016-02 Abstract We test the conjecture that intergenerational social mobility is tightly linked to adult mortality even after accounting for income levels, income inequality, and indicators of social capital, health behaviors and levels of access to health services. We use a large dataset from …
Engelman, Michal, and Heide JacksonWorking paper no. 2017-01 Abstract This paper examines the curious mismatch between the supposition of gradual, continuous change embedded in common health trajectory models and a pattern of punctuated stability that is captured in the nationally-representative and widely-used Health and Retirement Study. Inspired by an insight from evolutionary biology, our analysis contrasts …
Raymo, James, Isabel Pike, and Jersey LiangWorking paper no. 2017-03 Abstract Existing research on the living arrangements of older Americans is limited in that it pays little attention to geographic proximity to children (proximate residence) and uses data from cross-sectional or short panel surveys. We address these limitations by using data from the Health and Retirement …
McEniry, Mary, Carmen Elisa Florez, Renata Pardo, Rafael Samper-Ternent, and Carlos Cano GutierrezWorking paper no. 2017-07 Abstract Examining multigenerational effects on health in Latin American populations from grandparents to subsequent generations is a fruitful area for research. Many Latin American populations have experienced rapid demographic and nutritional changes across generations with possible consequences for older …
De Vos, SusanWorking paper no. 2018-01 Abstract This study looks at the extended family household living of elderly women aged 60+ in Brazil in 2010 (35.9 percent) by whether they had had a live birth using 2010 Brazilian census data (36.8 vs. 29.0 percent). It applies a binomial multivariate logistic model containing socio-demographic, socio-economic, and …
McEniry, Mary, Rafael Samper-Ternent, and Carlos Cano GuitierrezWorking paper no. 2018-03 Abstract Large displacement of populations in developing economies due to internal armed conflict and violence is of international concern but there has been relatively little research on the long-term consequences of displacement on older adult health, in particular displacement during childhood. We examine displacement …