| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w12040 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 12040 |
| How Do the Better Educated Do It? Socioeconomic Status and the Ability to Cope with Underlying Impairment | |
| David M. Cutler; Mary Beth Landrum; Kate A. Stewart | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-02-13 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is a pronounced gradient in disability across socioeconomic groups, with better educated and higher income groups reporting substantially less disability. In this paper, we consider why that is the case, focusing on impairments in basic physical and cognitive aspects of living for the elderly. Our empirical work has two parts. First, we consider how much of this gradient in disability is a result of underlying differences in functioning versus the ability to cope with impairments. We show differences in functioning are the major part of the difference in disability, but both are important. Second, we consider how the better educated elderly cope with disability. Better educated people use substantially more assistive technology than the less educated and are more likely to use paid help. But use of these services is not the primary reason that the better educated are better able to cope. We conclude with thoughts about other potential factors that may explain differential coping. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w12040 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569693 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David M. Cutler,Mary Beth Landrum,Kate A. Stewart. How Do the Better Educated Do It? Socioeconomic Status and the Ability to Cope with Underlying Impairment. 2006. |
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| w12040.pdf（313KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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