The Role of Family Support in the Well-Being of Older People: Evidence from Malaysia and Viet Nam
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- Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen & Zveglich, Joseph E. & Ali, Khadija & Xue, Hanna, 2025. "The role of family support in the well-being of older people: Evidence from Malaysia and Viet Nam," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
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Keywords
mental health; well-being; physical health; depression; gender; women; aging;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2024-07-15 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2024-07-15 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2024-07-15 (South East Asia)
- NEP-TRA-2024-07-15 (Transition Economics)
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