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(This article was published in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 18, James P. Smith, The HRS around the world surveys—A review, p. 100295, Copyright Elsevier 2021). Abstract: Aging is clearly one of the most shared current public policy issues around the world with rapid demographic aging and the joint goals of maintaining good health and adequate economic security with finan-cially attainable public and private budgets. It is thus not surprising that the Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) unit of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in the United States started a Health and Retirement Study in the United States in 1990, a national panel sample with a two- year periodicity of Americans over age 50. [Read more]

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