Journal of the Economics of Ageing

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board68
Medical progress and life cycle choices40
Comparing age-happiness relationships between Japan and Europe31
Fiscal consequences of Alzheimer's disease and informal care provision in the UK: A “government perspective” microsimulation30
Social engagement and health in an aging society: Impact of Basic Old-Age Pension in Korea28
Aging workforce, wages, and productivity: Do older workers drag productivity down in Korea?28
Does financial education affect retirement savings?25
Who supports carbon pricing? Older adults’ financial literacy and attitudes toward carbon taxation23
The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health — Evidence from administrative data21
The effect of educational expansion and family change on the sustainability of public and private transfers20
Health information and health behaviours: Does new information on hypertension status matter?20
Households’ heterogeneous welfare effects of using home equity for life cycle consumption20
The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium18
Population ageing and public finance burden of dementia: Micro-simulations evaluating risk factors, treatments and comorbidities in Luxembourg17
Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean☆17
Frailty and socioeconomic stratification in Brazil, India, and China16
Longevity gains and the internal rate of return of PAYG pension plans – Evidence for 17 OECD countries14
COVID-19 and attitudes towards early withdrawal of pension funds: The role of trust and political ideology14
Governing for the Future? life expectancy and the politics of environmental investment13
Understanding the heterogeneous health effect of retirement by tracking daily activities13
The dynamic effects of health on the employment of older workers: Impacts by gender, country, and race13
Pension exposure and health: Evidence from a longitudinal study in South Africa11
Unravelling hidden inequities in a universal public long-term care system11
Early-life transfers for education and marriage and children’s old-age support: Time or money?10
Impact of population ageing on the application of industrial robots: Evidence from China10
R(a)ising employment of older individuals9
Editorial Board9
Does free health insurance improve health care use and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana?8
Pensions in an ageing society – Strains and pains of becoming older together8
Occupations and retirement across countries7
The impact of macroeconomic conditions on long-term care: Evidence on prices7
Declining financial and health literacy among older men and women7
Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: Did a new socialist government make a difference?7
The replacement rate that maintains income satisfaction through retirement: The question of income-dependence7
The impact of demographic change on aggregate final consumption: Japan’s experiences and prospects from a national accounting perspective7
Trend in length-of-stay in nursing homes: Evidence from the Netherlands6
Editorial Board6
The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of wealth in the European Union6
Early retired or automatized? Evidence from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe6
Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions5
Aging and age selectivity: Exploring differences across time and space5
Macroeconomic and fiscal implications of changes in the labor share under population aging in Japan5
The economics of longevity – An introduction5
Navigating healthcare for older adults after a chronic illness diagnosis: Evidence from China5
Valuing health: Philosophical perspectives5
Are women preparing for old age? Evidence from Japan5
Editorial Board5
Decomposing longevity: How life expectancy changes around the world5
The Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity: United States of America National Academy of Medicine Consensus Study Report, 20225
Editorial Board5
Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers5
Employment and productivity in an ageing society: Japan in international perspective5
Diabetes management in an ageing society: The role of nursing support in primary care4
Interview with Liashko Viktor, Ukrainian Minister of Health4
Paying into poverty? Out-of-pocket payments for home care and risk of catastrophic expenditures and poverty in Europe4
Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors4
Demographics and other constraints on future monetary policy4
Assistance benefits and unemployment outflows of the elderly unemployed: The impact of a law change4
The effect of aging on entrepreneurship and aggregate productivity4
The fiscal consequences of changing demographic composition: Aging and differential growth across Israel’s three major subpopulations4
Navigating demographic challenges: The impact of increasing social contribution rates on tax revenue and distribution4
The impact of famine experience on middle-aged and elderly individuals’ food consumption: Evidence from China4
Demand for older workers: What do we know? What do we need to learn?4
Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic4
Grandparents in Blue? The Impact of Grandparenthood on Mental Health and Healthcare Utilization in China4
Investment in human capital by socioeconomic status in Uruguay4
Aging and work capacity3
Lifecycle analysis of the gender gap in paid and unpaid work by household structure3
What explains different rates of nursing home admissions? Comparing the United States to Denmark and the Netherlands3
Evidence of behavioural life-cycle features in spending patterns after retirement3
Editorial Board3
Extending working lives in Japan: Evidence and lessons from an outlier3
Aging, education and some other implications for the silver dividend in developing countries: Evidence from Brazil3
Mortality differentials, the racial and ethnic retirement wealth gap, and the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Growing older and growing technologically backward? Population ageing and high-technology exports of 171 countries3
The impact of retirement on health: Empirical evidence from the change in public pensionable age in Japan3
Private health insurance, healthcare spending and utilization among older adults: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging3
An empirical investigation of health dynamics of elders in China3
Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data3
Next to kin: How children influence the residential mobility decisions of older adults3
Retirement and healthcare utilization: Evidence from pension eligibility ages in South Korea3
A distributive analysis using Peru’s National Transfer Accounts3
Demographic changes and intergenerational reallocations in Brazil, 2003–20183
Regressivity in public pension systems: The case of Peru3
Retirement and the distribution of intra-household wellbeing2
Aging workforce and industrial Robots: Industry-Level evidence from Japan2
Corrigendum to “Trade-offs in long-term care for older people in an ageing society: A constrained portfolio choice experiment” [J. Econ. Ageing 32 (2025) 100599]2
Demographic change, firm costs, and digital transformation2
Consumption and poverty of older Chinese: 2011–20202
Exclusion from a ‘mandatory’ pension scheme: Late-stage dropouts from the National Pension System in South Korea2
Spending trajectories after age 65 variation by initial wealth2
Age-dependent risk aversion: Re-evaluating fiscal policy impacts of population aging2
Instrumental variable estimates of the burden of parental caregiving2
Biological age across the globe: 1990–20192
Challenges for the private pension system in the UK and policy proposals to address them2
The role of educational attainment in production and transfers in the form of unpaid household work2
Joint retirement behaviour and pension reform in the Netherlands2
Trade-offs in long-term care for older people in an ageing society: A constrained portfolio choice experiment2
Aging populations and expenditures on health2
The impact of population aging on the household saving rate: the case of Japan2
Understanding the effects of widowhood on health in China: Mechanisms and heterogeneity2
Evaluating the relationship between income, survival and loss of autonomy among older Canadians2
Pension information and women’s awareness2
Growing old in rural America: Measuring late-life health and economic well-being2
The macroeconomic impact of chronic disease in the United Kingdom2
Introduction to the special issue: the economics of ageing and longevity2
Optimal policies in an ageing society2
Healthy ageing trends in England between 2002 to 2018: Improving but slowing and unequal2
Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data2
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