A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health in low-and middle-income countries

J McGuire, C Kaiser, AM Bach-Mortensen - Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly recognized as a scalable intervention to alleviate
financial hardship. A large body of evidence evaluates the impact of CTs on subjective well …

Unconditional cash transfers for reducing poverty and vulnerabilities: effect on use of health services and health outcomes in low‐and middle‐income countries

F Pega, R Pabayo, C Benny, EY Lee… - Cochrane Database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Unconditional cash transfers (UCTs; provided without obligation) for reducing
poverty and vulnerabilities (eg orphanhood, old age, or HIV infection) are a social protection …

Difference-in-differences method in comparative effectiveness research: utility with unbalanced groups

H Zhou, C Taber, S Arcona, Y Li - Applied health economics and health …, 2016 - Springer
Background Comparative effectiveness research (CER) often includes observational studies
utilizing administrative data. Multiple conditioning methods can be used for CER to adjust for …

Social protection for happiness? The impact of social pension reform on subjective well-being of the Korean elderly

TY Pak - Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020 - Elsevier
Expanding the scope of the traditional indicators used to assess economic progress with
measures of subjective well-being has been of growing importance in policy modeling. A …

What are the effects of expanding social pension on health? Evidence from the Basic Pension in South Korea

TY Pak - The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-contributory social pension has been widely used to provide minimum income support
for disadvantaged seniors. Despite its efficacy in reducing old-age poverty, only a few …

Association of objective and subjective socioeconomic markers with cognitive impairment among older adults: cross-sectional evidence from a developing country

T Muhammad, TV Sekher, S Srivastava - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective This study explored how various markers of objective and subjective
socioeconomic status (SES) are associated with cognitive impairment among older Indian …

[HTML][HTML] Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: lessons from Korean social pension policies

I Hwang, TJ Lee - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The social pension, introduced in 2008 in Korea, has now become the most prominent old
age income for most older adults. As of May 2022, it paid a monthly benefit of around USD …

Association of self-perceived income sufficiency with cognitive impairment among older adults: a population-based study in India

T Muhammad, S Srivastava, TV Sekher - BMC psychiatry, 2021 - Springer
Background Greater cognitive performance has been shown to be associated with better
mental and physical health and lower mortality. The present study contributes to the existing …

Subjective well-being impact of old age pension in South Africa: A difference in difference analysis across the gender divide

MN Etinzock, U Kollamparambil - South African Journal of Economic …, 2019 - journals.co.za
Background: South Africa provides old age pension (OAP), a non-contributory means-tested
income transfer to persons aged 60 and above. More than two-thirds of the elderly …

Lifetime socioeconomic status and late-life health trajectories: Longitudinal results from the Mexican Health and Aging Study

JM Torres, S Rizzo, R Wong - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objective: This article examines the association between childhood and adult
socioeconomic status (SES) and late-life health trajectories for older adults in Mexico …