残疾的时间成本
Daniel S Hamermesh1, Michał Myck2
1University of Texas at Austin, United States; IZA, United States; NBER, United States.
Journal of health economics
|November 4, 2025
概括
身体障碍减少了老年人的日常活动和多样性. 这种活动多样性的丧失造成了重大的经济成本,影响了整体福祉和财务安全.
科学领域:
- 社会经济学 社会经济学
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 关于残疾人的研究.
背景情况:
- 身体残疾可以显著影响日常生活和活动模式.
- 了解这些影响对于公共卫生和经济政策至关重要.
- 之前的研究已经探讨了残疾的各个方面,但时间使用模式需要进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 调查身体残疾如何改变老年人的时间使用模式.
- 量化因残疾而减少日常活动和多样性的数量.
- 估计与此类活动流失相关的经济成本.
主要方法:
- 美国时间使用调查 (ATUS) 2008-2022年对70岁以上非工作受访者相关数据的分析.
- 验证使用2013年波兰时间使用调查的数据与医学认证的残疾人.
- 跨国比较使用来自英国,加拿大,法国,意大利和西班牙数据集的均时间日记.
- 一个应用程序的应用.
- 六次差异差异的区别
- 测试以推断因果关系.
主要成果:
- 与非残疾人相比,身体残疾的受访者每天从事的活动减少了10%以上.
- 障碍与多天的活动多样性的显著损失有关.
- 在多个国家观察到类似的结果,表明了一致的模式.
- 据估计,失去了各种活动的经济成本是分析国家的老年人的平均年收入的两倍以上.
结论:
- 身体障碍导致老年人日常活动的数量和多样性大幅减少.
- 这种活动减少意味着巨大的,可量化的经济负担.
- 调查结果强调,需要制定政策和支持系统,以减轻老年人口中残疾的时间使用和经济后果.
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