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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing age-happiness relationships between Japan and Europe	50
Medical progress and life cycle choices	32
Editorial Board	28
Fiscal consequences of Alzheimer's disease and informal care provision in the UK: A “government perspective” microsimulation	26
Social engagement and health in an aging society: Impact of Basic Old-Age Pension in Korea	25
Health, loneliness and the ageing process in the absence of cardinal measure: Rendering intangibles tangible	24
Who supports carbon pricing? Older adults’ financial literacy and attitudes toward carbon taxation	22
The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health — Evidence from administrative data	21
Does financial education affect retirement savings?	20
Aging workforce, wages, and productivity: Do older workers drag productivity down in Korea?	19
The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium	18
Health information and health behaviours: Does new information on hypertension status matter?	18
The effect of educational expansion and family change on the sustainability of public and private transfers	17
Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean☆	17
Households’ heterogeneous welfare effects of using home equity for life cycle consumption	16
Population ageing and public finance burden of dementia: Micro-simulations evaluating risk factors, treatments and comorbidities in Luxembourg	16
Frailty and socioeconomic stratification in Brazil, India, and China	15
COVID-19 and attitudes towards early withdrawal of pension funds: The role of trust and political ideology	14
Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance? Evidence from the U.S. Social Security reforms	13
Understanding the heterogeneous health effect of retirement by tracking daily activities	12
Longevity gains and the internal rate of return of PAYG pension plans – Evidence for 17 OECD countries	12
Early-life transfers for education and marriage and children’s old-age support: Time or money?	11
Unravelling hidden inequities in a universal public long-term care system	11
R(a)ising employment of older individuals	11
Pension exposure and health: Evidence from a longitudinal study in South Africa	11

Impact of population ageing on the application of industrial robots: Evidence from China	11
Editorial Board	10
Declining financial and health literacy among older men and women	10
Does free health insurance improve health care use and labour market outcomes of the elderly in Ghana?	10
Occupations and retirement across countries	9
The replacement rate that maintains income satisfaction through retirement: The question of income-dependence	9
Socioeconomic inequalities in national transfers accounts in Ecuador 2006 and 2011: Did a new socialist government make a difference?	8
Early retired or automatized? Evidence from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe	7
The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of wealth in the European Union	7
The impact of macroeconomic conditions on long-term care: Evidence on prices	7
Trend in length-of-stay in nursing homes: Evidence from the Netherlands	7
Navigating healthcare for older adults after a chronic illness diagnosis: Evidence from China	6
Decomposing longevity: How life expectancy changes around the world	6
Aging and age selectivity: Exploring differences across time and space	6
Pathways to Retirement Among Dual Earning Couples	6
The Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity: United States of America National Academy of Medicine Consensus Study Report, 2022	6
Editorial Board	6
Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for redistribution through public pensions	6
The economics of longevity – An introduction	5
Employment and productivity in an ageing society: Japan in international perspective	5
Demand for older workers: What do we know? What do we need to learn?	5
Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs: Evidence from a German pension reform	5
Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers	5
Macroeconomic and fiscal implications of changes in the labor share under population aging in Japan	5
Determinants of early-access to retirement savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Assistance benefits and unemployment outflows of the elderly unemployed: The impact of a law change	5
Editorial Board	4
Navigating demographic challenges: The impact of increasing social contribution rates on tax revenue and distribution	4
Demographics and other constraints on future monetary policy	4
Interview with Liashko Viktor, Ukrainian Minister of Health	4
Income and well-being in old age: The role of local contextual factors	4
The fiscal consequences of changing demographic composition: Aging and differential growth across Israel’s three major subpopulations	4
Retirement and healthcare utilization: Evidence from pension eligibility ages in South Korea	4
The effect of aging on entrepreneurship and aggregate productivity	4
Investment in human capital by socioeconomic status in Uruguay	4
Lifecycle analysis of the gender gap in paid and unpaid work by household structure	4
The impact of famine experience on middle-aged and elderly individuals’ food consumption: Evidence from China	4
Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data	3
Introduction to the special issue: the economics of ageing and longevity	3
Private health insurance, healthcare spending and utilization among older adults: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging	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
An empirical investigation of health dynamics of elders in China	3
Editorial Board	3
Aging, education and some other implications for the silver dividend in developing countries: Evidence from Brazil	3
Mortality differentials, the racial and ethnic retirement wealth gap, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
A distributive analysis using Peru’s National Transfer Accounts	3
The impact of retirement on health: Empirical evidence from the change in public pensionable age in Japan	3

Regressivity in public pension systems: The case of Peru	3
The macroeconomic impact of chronic disease in the United Kingdom	3
Evidence of behavioural life-cycle features in spending patterns after retirement	3
Demographic changes and intergenerational reallocations in Brazil, 2003–2018	3
Next to kin: How children influence the residential mobility decisions of older adults	3
Mental health effects of caregivers respite: Subsidies or Supports?	2
Instrumental variable estimates of the burden of parental caregiving	2
Trade-offs in long-term care for older people in an ageing society: A constrained portfolio choice experiment	2
Optimal policies in an ageing society	2
Spending trajectories after age 65 variation by initial wealth	2
Growing old in rural America: Measuring late-life health and economic well-being	2
The role of educational attainment in production and transfers in the form of unpaid household work	2
Retirement and the distribution of intra-household wellbeing	2
The effect of social pension on consumption among older adults in Korea	2
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
Aging and work capacity	2
Demographic change, firm costs, and digital transformation	2
Pension information and women’s awareness	2
Opportunity costs of unpaid caregiving: Evidence from panel time diaries	2
Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data	2
Exclusion from a ‘mandatory’ pension scheme: Late-stage dropouts from the National Pension System in South Korea	2
Consumption and poverty of older Chinese: 2011–2020	2
Biological age across the globe: 1990–2019	2
Aging populations and expenditures on health	2
Aging workforce and industrial Robots: Industry-Level evidence from Japan	2
Joint retirement behaviour and pension reform in the Netherlands	2