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Prevalence of Dementia in the United States: The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study
TLDR
Dementia prevalence estimates from this first nationally representative population-based study of dementia in the USA to include subjects from all regions of the country can provide essential information for effective planning for the impending healthcare needs of the large and increasing number of individuals at risk for dementia as the population ages.
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Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment without Dementia in the United States
TLDR
Prevalence rates from what is believed to be the first population-based study of cognitive impairment without dementia to include individuals from all regions of the country are reported, as well as rates of progression from cognitive impairmentWithout dementia to dementia and death.
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A New Approach to the Economic Theory of Fertility Behavior
  • R. Willis
  • Economics
    Journal of Political Economy
  • 1 March 1973
A static economic theory of lifetime marital fertility is presented within the context of the economic theory of the family. The theoretical model is developed under a set of restrictive assumptions…
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Match Quality, New Information, and Marital Dissolution
TLDR
It is found that an unexpected increase in the husband's earning capacity reduces the divorce hazard, while an unexpected rise in the wife's earnings capacity raises the divorcehazard.
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Mental Retirement
TLDR
It is found that early retirement has a significant negative impact on the cognitive ability of people in their early 60s that is both quantitatively important and causal.
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Chapter 10 Wage determinants: A survey and reinterpretation of human capital earnings functions
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Daughters, Education, and Family Budgets Taiwan Experiences
Growth in the education of the labor force is one of the most important determinants of economic growth, and the distribution by sex is a key determinant of gender inequality. In this paper, we…
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Prevalence of Dementia in the United States
The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries
A Theory of Out‐of‐Wedlock Childbearing
  • R. Willis
  • Economics
    Journal of Political Economy
  • 1 December 1999
In 1960, marriage was a virtual precondition for childbearing. By 1997, out‐of‐wedlock births accounted for 26 percent of fertility among whites and 69 percent among blacks. This paper presents a…
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