TY  - JOUR
IS  - 83
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SP  - 95
VL  - 42
JF  - Economía
A1  - Novella, R
A1  - Olivera, J
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18800/economia.201901.005
TI  - Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities Among the Elderly Poor of Peru
AV  - public
Y1  - 2019///
EP  - 109
KW  - Cognition; Old age; Gender differences; Poverty; Peru.
N2  - We study gender differences on cognitive functioning among older adults living in poverty. The
data come from the Survey of Health and Wellbeing of the Elderly (ESBAM) which is the baseline
survey to evaluate the Peru?s social pension program Pension 65. The results show that females
are better off than males regarding episodic memory, but worse off in mental intactness. We do
not find gender differences in the overall measure of cognition, but regional differences matter
in favour of urban localities. The sizeable associations of education and quality of childhood
nutrition with later-life cognition confirm the long-term impacts of early life developments on
current outcomes, particularly in the case of females. Therefore, policies aimed at improving early
childhood development are expected to have a positive impact in the quality of old-age.
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