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James P. Smith
Researcher at RAND Corporation
Publications - 375
Citations - 25044
James P. Smith is an academic researcher from RAND Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Socioeconomic status & Population. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 372 publications receiving 23013 citations. Previous affiliations of James P. Smith include University College London & University of Southern California.
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Healthy Bodies and Thick Wallets: The Dual Relation Between Health and Economic Status
TL;DR: The first section of this paper documents the size of the association between health and one prominent economic status measure--household wealth--and outlines reasons why health may alter household savings and the empirical magnitude of these effects.
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Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)
TL;DR: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a nationally representative longitudinal survey of persons in China 45 years of age or older and their spouses, including assessments of social, economic, and health circumstances of community-residents, examines health and economic adjustments to rapid ageing of the population in China.
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
TL;DR: The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer.