Healthcare Economist November 19, 2020
How well do different countries take care of their elderly and near elderly populations? A study by Macinko et al. (2020) provides some useful statistics.
Methods
- Population of interest. Individuals aged 50 and above sampled across 23 high- and middle-income countries.
- Data. The data come from 2015 or 2016 years for the following data sets: Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging; Mexican Health and Aging Study; Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, which includes Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Luxembourg, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland; Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study; Health and Retirement Study in the US. While these are large, robust data...