Old-age benefits and retirement decisions of rural elderly in Brazil

I estimate the impact of social security benefits on retirement decisions of rural workers by studying changes in the roles governing social security in Brazil. I focus on a 1991 reform, which brought a reduction in the minimum eligibility age for males and females, a doubling of benefit values and the extension of benefits to non-heads of households. Because beneficiaries are not subject to means or retirement tests, I estimate apure income effect. I find that a reduction in the minimum eligibility age for old-age benefits was an important determinant in the reduction in labor supply of elderly rural workers in Brazil. Finally, I find that benefit take-up rates are larger among the better educated, but least-schooled workers show the largest labor supply responses to the reform.

Social security and the problem of old age in Latin America

Includes bibliography

On the decline of life in health and disease, being an attempt to investigate the causes of longevity : and the best means of attaining a healthful old age

by Barnard van Oven

Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania

In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can provide her with old age security, single females living outside the village are more likely to marry into the village. Using a natural experimental setting, provided by the longitudinal household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania for the period from 1991 to 2004, during which several villages that initially banned a widow's land inheritance removed this discrimination, this study provides evidence in support of this view, whereby altering a customary land inheritance rules in a village in favor of widows increased the probability of males marrying in that village. This finding suggests that providing rural women with old age protection (e.g., insurance, livelihood protection) has remarkable spatial and temporal welfare effects by influencing their decision to marry.

The problem of old age pensions in industry, an up-to-date summary of the facts and figures developed in the further study of old age pensions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Old age security reform in China /

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Administration of medical care; problems and issues, based on an analysis of the medical-dental care program for the recipients of old-age assistance in the state of Washington, 1941-1945.

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Old age in New York city; an analysis of some problems of the aged, based on 3,106 requests for information about health and welfare services,

"First printing."

OAA profile: the old age assistance client in Chicago

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the royal commission on the aged poor : appointed to consider whether any alterations in the system of poor law relief are desirable, in the case of persons whose destitution is occasioned by incapacity for work resulting from old age, or whether assistance could otherwise be afforded in those cases.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Miscellaneous publications on old age pensions in agriculture, United States]

Mode of access: Internet.