OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the Economics of Ageing is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting longer-term health effects of informal caregiving: Evidence from the UK	27
Medical progress and life cycle choices	25
Social engagement and health in an aging society: Impact of Basic Old-Age Pension in Korea	21
Fiscal consequences of Alzheimer's disease and informal care provision in the UK: A “government perspective” microsimulation	20
The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health — Evidence from administrative data	20
Does financial education affect retirement savings?	19
Aging workforce, wages, and productivity: Do older workers drag productivity down in Korea?	18
Revisiting the effect of retirement on Cognition: Heterogeneity and endowment	17
Health information and health behaviours: Does new information on hypertension status matter?	16
Health, loneliness and the ageing process in the absence of cardinal measure: Rendering intangibles tangible	16
The effect of educational expansion and family change on the sustainability of public and private transfers	14
Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean☆	14
Households’ heterogeneous welfare effects of using home equity for life cycle consumption	13
The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium	13
COVID-19 and attitudes towards early withdrawal of pension funds: The role of trust and political ideology	12
Longevity gains and the internal rate of return of PAYG pension plans – Evidence for 17 OECD countries	12
Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security reforms	12
Population ageing and public finance burden of dementia: Micro-simulations evaluating risk factors, treatments and comorbidities in Luxembourg	12
Frailty and socioeconomic stratification in Brazil, India, and China	11
Understanding the heterogeneous health effect of retirement by tracking daily activities	10
Unravelling hidden inequities in a universal public long-term care system	10
Pension exposure and health: Evidence from a longitudinal study in South Africa	10
Early-life transfers for education and marriage and children’s old-age support: Time or money?	9
Editorial Board	9
Declining financial and health literacy among older men and women	9

R(a)ising employment of older individuals	9
Impact of population ageing on the application of industrial robots: Evidence from China	9
Occupations and retirement across countries	9
The replacement rate that maintains income satisfaction through retirement: The question of income-dependence	8
Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: Did a new socialist government make a difference?	7
The effect of volunteering on employment: Evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)	7
Does free health insurance improve health care use and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana?	7
Navigating healthcare for older adults after a chronic illness diagnosis: Evidence from China	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of wealth in the European Union	6
Early retired or automatized? Evidence from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe	6
Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions	5
Editorial Board	5
Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs: Evidence from a German pension reform	5
Pathways to Retirement Among Dual Earning Couples	5
Aging and age selectivity: Exploring differences across time and space	5
Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers	5
The Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity: United States of America National Academy of Medicine Consensus Study Report, 2022	5
Editorial Board	5
The economics of longevity – An introduction	5
Editorial Board	4
Interview with Liashko Viktor, Ukrainian Minister of Health	4
Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors	4
Assistance benefits and unemployment outflows of the elderly unemployed: The impact of a law change	4
The impact of famine experience on middle-aged and elderly individuals’ food consumption: Evidence from China	4
Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Demand for older workers: What do we know? What do we need to learn?	4
Evidence of behavioural life-cycle features in spending patterns after retirement	3
What explains different rates of nursing home admissions? Comparing the United States to Denmark and the Netherlands	3
Demographic changes and intergenerational reallocations in Brazil, 2003–2018	3
The impact of retirement on health: Empirical evidence from the change in public pensionable age in Japan	3
A distributive analysis using Peru’s National Transfer Accounts	3
The fiscal consequences of changing demographic composition: Aging and differential growth across Israel’s three major subpopulations	3
Retirement and healthcare utilization: Evidence from pension eligibility ages in South Korea	3
Demographics and other constraints on future monetary policy	3
Next to kin: How children influence the residential mobility decisions of older adults	3
Investment in human capital by socioeconomic status in Uruguay	3
Mortality differentials, the racial and ethnic retirement wealth gap, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Growing older and growing technologically backward? Population ageing and high-technology exports of 171 countries	3
Consumption and poverty of older Chinese: 2011–2020	2
Growing old in rural America: Measuring late-life health and economic well-being	2
An empirical investigation of health dynamics of elders in China	2
Opportunity costs of unpaid caregiving: Evidence from panel time diaries	2
Exclusion from a ‘mandatory’ pension scheme: Late-stage dropouts from the National Pension System in South Korea	2
Optimal policies in an ageing society	2
Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data	2
Aging populations and expenditures on health	2
Aging and work capacity	2
Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data	2

Editorial Board	2
The effect of social pension on consumption among older adults in Korea	2
Biological age across the globe: 1990–2019	2
Pension information and women’s awareness	2
Aging, education and some other implications for the silver dividend in developing countries: Evidence from Brazil	2
Private health insurance, healthcare spending and utilization among older adults: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging	2
Regressivity in public pension systems: The case of Peru	2
Spending trajectories after age 65 variation by initial wealth	2
Joint retirement behaviour and pension reform in the Netherlands	2
The role of educational attainment in production and transfers in the form of unpaid household work	2
Evaluating the relationship between income, survival and loss of autonomy among older Canadians	2