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Zoe Oldfield
Publications - 42
Citations - 2105
Zoe Oldfield is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pension. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 42 publications receiving 2006 citations.
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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.
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Understanding pensions: cognitive function, numerical ability and retirement saving
James Banks,Zoe Oldfield +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, numerical ability and other dimensions of cognitive function in a sample of older adults in England and examine the extent to which these abilities are correlated with various measures of wealth and retirement saving outcomes.
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Cognitive function, numeracy and retirement saving trajectories.
TL;DR: Those with lower numeracy are shown to have different wealth trajectories both pre- and post-retirement than their more numerate counterparts, but the distributions of retirement expectations and net replacement rates are similar across numeracy groups.
Book Chapter
Socio-economic position
TL;DR: The inequality in wealth across the older population is much greater than that observed in incomes and the degree to which the ‘average’ wealth measures are driven by a small number of very wealthy individuals is indicated.
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
TL;DR: The authors examined geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and the USA and found that the principal reasons for greater mobility among older Americans are twofold: (1) greater spatial distribution of geographic distribution of amenities (such as warm weather) and housing costs; (2) greater institutional rigidities in subsidized British rental housing providing stronger incentives for British renters not to move.