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Socioeconomic Status and Health of Older Adults Across Diverse Settings

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2005
Kaneda, Toshiko, Zachary Zimmer, and Zhe Tang. “Socioeconomic status differentials in life and active life expectancy among older adults in Beijing,” Disability and Rehabilitation 27(5): 241–251.*

2004
Zimmer, Zachary
, Napaporn Chayovan, Hui-Sheng Lin, and Josefina Natividad. "How indicators of socioeconomic status relate to physical functioning of older adults in three Asian societies," Research on Aging 26(2): 224–258.* Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 172. New York: Population Council, 2003. (PDF) (abstract)

Zimmer, Zachary and Julia Kwong. "Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in urban and rural China," Journal of Health and Aging 16(1): 44–70.*

2003
Zimmer, Zachary
and James S. House. “Education, income, and functional limitation transitions among American adults: Contrasting onset and progression,” International Journal of Epidemiology 32(6): 1089–1097.*

2002
Dayton, Julia
and Martha Ainsworth. “The elderly and AIDS: Coping strategies and health consequences in rural Tanzania,” Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 160. New York: Population Council, 2002. (PDF) (abstract)

Zimmer, Zachary, Albert I. Hermalin and Hui-Sheng Lin. “Whose education counts? The added impact of adult child education on physical functioning of older Taiwanese,” Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 57(1): S23–S32.* Also issued as Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 146. New York: Population Council, 2001. (PDF) (abstract)

2001
Zimmer, Zachary and Pattama Amornsirisomboon. “Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in Thailand: An examination using multiple indicators,” Social Science and Medicine 52(8): 1297–1311.*

2000
Zimmer, Zachary, Josefina N. Natividad, Hui-Sheng Lin and Napaporn Chayovan. “A cross-national examination of the determinants of self-assessed health,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(4): 465–481.*

1999
Zimmer, Zachary and Xian Liu. “A comparison of the impact of education on functional limitations across three countries: Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines,” in Chaonan Chen, Albert I. Hermalin, Sheng-Cheng Hu, and James P. Smith (eds.), Emerging Social Economic Welfare Programs for Aging in Taiwan in a World Context. Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, pp. 305–336.*

* Not available from the Population Council. 

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13 January 2006