Economic development and gender inequality in cognition: A comparison of China and India, and of SAGE and the HRS sister studies

Journal of the Economics of Ageing

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-125

  Weir, David ^a   Lay, Margaret ^a   Langa, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Cognition; Gender; India; Inequality; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027951340     PISSN: 2212828X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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