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Article History

Received: 19 December 2017

Accepted: 30 August 2018

First Online: 10 September 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: In this study we use data collected by Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement In Europe (SHARE).The SHARE study is subject to continuous ethics review. During Waves 1 to 4, SHARE was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Mannheim. Wave 4 and the continuation of the project were reviewed and approved by the Ethics Council of the Max Planck Society. In addition, the country implementations of SHARE were reviewed and approved by the respective ethics committees or institutional review boards whenever this was required. The numerous reviews covered all aspects of the SHARE study, including sub-projects and confirmed the project to be compliant with the relevant legal norms and that the project and its procedures agree with international ethical standards. Please see overview and summary of the ethics approvals for more information. The SHARE data are openly available for registered users. Detailed information on how to register are available on: ExternalRef removed.

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