Importance Differences in the organization and financing of health systems may produce
more or less equitable outcomes for advantaged vs disadvantaged populations. We …

We discuss poverty measurement, focusing on two alternatives to the current official
measure: consumption poverty, and the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic
condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper …

Most empirical distributional studies of well-being in developed countries rely on
distributions of disposable income. From a theoretical point of view this practice is …

Increased policy and academic attention has been placed on promoting retirement savings
early in the life course. This study investigates the extent to which retirement savings …

Objectives: Examine the association of income poverty and material deprivation with
depression in old age. Methods: Our data contains a survey of 1,959 older Chinese adults in …

This investigation examines the association of four measures of poverty (income-based,
expenditure-based and asset-based poverty, and material deprivation) with life satisfaction …

Using data from the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to analyze
the determinants of material hardship among individuals ages sixty-five and older, I look at …

This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its
measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most …

The Hong Kong population will age rapidly over the next three decades and the entailing
problem of old-age poverty will put the Hong Kong government to test. While the government …