What Are the Effects of Expanding Social Pension on Health? Evidence from the Basic Pension in South Korea
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- Pak, Tae-Young, 2021. "What are the effects of expanding social pension on health? Evidence from the Basic Pension in South Korea," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 18(C).
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Keywords
old-age poverty; non-contributory pension; depression; financial satisfaction; South Korea;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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