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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting longer-term health effects of informal caregiving: Evidence from the UK	36
Medical progress and life cycle choices	25
Fiscal consequences of Alzheimer's disease and informal care provision in the UK: A “government perspective” microsimulation	23
Health, loneliness and the ageing process in the absence of cardinal measure: Rendering intangibles tangible	20
Revisiting the effect of retirement on Cognition: Heterogeneity and endowment	20
Social engagement and health in an aging society: Impact of Basic Old-Age Pension in Korea	19
The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health — Evidence from administrative data	18
Aging workforce, wages, and productivity: Do older workers drag productivity down in Korea?	16
The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium	16
Does financial education affect retirement savings?	16
Households’ heterogeneous welfare effects of using home equity for life cycle consumption	16
Health information and health behaviours: Does new information on hypertension status matter?	15
The effect of educational expansion and family change on the sustainability of public and private transfers	15
Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean☆	14
Population ageing and public finance burden of dementia: Micro-simulations evaluating risk factors, treatments and comorbidities in Luxembourg	13
Frailty and socioeconomic stratification in Brazil, India, and China	13
Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security reforms	13
Longevity gains and the internal rate of return of PAYG pension plans – Evidence for 17 OECD countries	12
Intra-familial transfers, son preference, and retirement behavior in South Korea	12
COVID-19 and attitudes towards early withdrawal of pension funds: The role of trust and political ideology	12
Unravelling hidden inequities in a universal public long-term care system	12
Understanding the heterogeneous health effect of retirement by tracking daily activities	11
Pension exposure and health: Evidence from a longitudinal study in South Africa	11
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 China	10

Declining financial and health literacy among older men and women	9
R(a)ising employment of older individuals	9
The replacement rate that maintains income satisfaction through retirement: The question of income-dependence	9
Editorial Board	9
Occupations and retirement across countries	8
Effect of immigration on depression among older natives in Western Europe	8
Does free health insurance improve health care use and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana?	8
Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: Did a new socialist government make a difference?	7
Editorial Board	7
Excess costs of dementia in old age (85+) in Germany: Results from the AgeCoDe-AgeQualiDe study	7
The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of wealth in the European Union	6
Navigating healthcare for older adults after a chronic illness diagnosis: Evidence from China	6
Early retired or automatized? Evidence from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe	6
Pathways to Retirement Among Dual Earning Couples	6
The effect of volunteering on employment: Evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)	6
Editorial Board	6
The Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity: United States of America National Academy of Medicine Consensus Study Report, 2022	5
The economics of longevity – An introduction	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Demand for older workers: What do we know? What do we need to learn?	5
Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions	5
Aging and age selectivity: Exploring differences across time and space	5
Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers	5
Assistance benefits and unemployment outflows of the elderly unemployed: The impact of a law change	4
Investment in human capital by socioeconomic status in Uruguay	4
The fiscal consequences of changing demographic composition: Aging and differential growth across Israel’s three major subpopulations	4
Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors	4
Editorial Board	4
Interview with Liashko Viktor, Ukrainian Minister of Health	4
Retirement and healthcare utilization: Evidence from pension eligibility ages in South Korea	4
Mortality differentials, the racial and ethnic retirement wealth gap, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs: Evidence from a German pension reform	4
Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The impact of famine experience on middle-aged and elderly individuals’ food consumption: Evidence from China	4
Demographics and other constraints on future monetary policy	4
An empirical investigation of health dynamics of elders in China	3
Evidence of behavioural life-cycle features in spending patterns after retirement	3
How financial literacy shapes the demand for financial advice at older ages	3
A distributive analysis using Peru’s National Transfer Accounts	3
Regressivity in public pension systems: The case of Peru	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
Next to kin: How children influence the residential mobility decisions of older adults	3
Playing dead pool against the contributions system	3
What explains different rates of nursing home admissions? Comparing the United States to Denmark and the Netherlands	3
Growing older and growing technologically backward? Population ageing and high-technology exports of 171 countries	3
The effect of social pension on consumption among older adults in Korea	2
Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data	2
Consumption and poverty of older Chinese: 2011–2020	2

Aging populations and expenditures on health	2
Growing old in rural America: Measuring late-life health and economic well-being	2
Optimal policies in an ageing society	2
Pension information and women’s awareness	2
Opportunity costs of unpaid caregiving: Evidence from panel time diaries	2
Editorial Board	2
Aging, education and some other implications for the silver dividend in developing countries: Evidence from Brazil	2
A dynamic behavioral model of Korean saving, work, and benefit claiming decisions	2
Spending trajectories after age 65 variation by initial wealth	2
Exclusion from a ‘mandatory’ pension scheme: Late-stage dropouts from the National Pension System in South Korea	2
The role of educational attainment in production and transfers in the form of unpaid household work	2
Private health insurance, healthcare spending and utilization among older adults: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging	2
Aging and work capacity	2
Joint retirement behaviour and pension reform in the Netherlands	2
The effects of population aging on South Korea’s economy: The National Transfer Accounts approach	2
Biological age across the globe: 1990–2019	2
Age-dependent risk aversion: Re-evaluating fiscal policy impacts of population aging	2