Malgorzata Kalbarczyk

• Dr
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Warsaw

W ocenie sytuacji społecznej oraz efektów działania instrumentów polityki dochodowej powszechnie korzysta się ze wskaźnika zagrożenia ubóstwem relatywnym. Jedną z alternatywnych miar jest wskaźnik ubóstwa subiektywnego identyfikujący osoby deklarujące niewystarczające dochody w odniesieniu do ich potrzeb. Celem badania jest porównanie wartości wska...

The aim is to build a collaborative network of researchers involved in research on Health Economics. Together with researchers at the Faculty of Economic Sciences UW we want to organize an international meeting dedicated to economic health research. Our team will also take part in COST Action 22159 Working group meeting in Warsaw to facilitate info...

Background: The population aging, together with the shrinking caring potential of families, is a major challenge for social policy in the coming years. The aim of the study is to identify the factors that determine not only the use of long-term care (LTC) but also the selection of individual types of such care in Poland. Methods: Using unique da...

The share of both elderly and obese people in the population of many countries, including Poland in particular, will increase. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of obesity of adults 50+ on public expenditures on long-term care in Poland. Using the Survey on Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) database and the European Com...

Background Commonly observed low activity of older adults harms their well-being. We perceive the retirement as a new opening that could be utilized to fulfill previously neglected needs and involve in new activities. They can be a remedy for losing the sense of life while changing the social role and getting older. This study explores trends in ac...

The aim of the study was to examine changes in objective and self-reported physical activity (PA) among women aged 60 years and older. The study included 200 women aged over 60 years, divided into three groups according to age (60-65 years, 66-70 years, > 70 years). The subjective assessment was provided with the International Physical Activity Que...

The aging of the population, coupled with increasing divorce and remarriage rates, are changing the structure of potential non-financial support for older parents. The purpose of this study was to examine support provided to parents aged 50+ in stepfamilies and to determine if the difference existed between help provided by natural children and ste...

The number of relatives and geographical proximity between them affects informal support provided to older persons. In this study, we investigate whether (a) childless persons and parents living remotely from their adult children experience similar shortages in informal support, and (b) whether neighbours, friends and other non-family helpers compe...

Our study estimates potential fiscal savings from increased physical activity among older people. This is the first study directly assessing the possible impact of higher physical activity on long-term fiscal sustainability. The study focuses on Poland, where ageing costs are mostly associated with an increase in public spending on healthcare and l...

Internally defined ties such as friendship, trust, or closeness might enhance private transfers. The present study examines the role of these ties on top of the impact of genetic relatedness and legal family relations using families with varied access to filial support as a source of heterogeneity. We investigate, in addition to family support, fin...

The aim of the articleis to present preferences of Poles regarding long-term care for the elderly and to examine whether informal and formal care are substitute or complementary, so can we speak about the crowding out effect. The data used in the study come from a special edition of the survey entitled Eurobarometer conducted by Eurostat in 2007. P...

Background The proportion of older people in many countries, including Poland, is expected to increase, which will lead to a rise in healthcare costs. Objectives This study aims to analyse the impact of older adults’ physical activity on public spending on healthcare in Poland over the long term. Method To include the physical activity factor nee...

In this study, we investigate whether higher physical activity of older people dampens increases in public expenditure, particularly the costs of long-term care. In our estimations, we refer to the projections of long-term care costs in Poland, published by the European Commission. Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)...

Equivalence scales are commonly employed in income analysis to compare the wealth of households of various compositions (e.g., 0-child, 1-child). The choice of weights for this type of analysis is not self-evident. In this paper, subjective equivalence scales for households in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary are estimated. We use longitudin...

It is interesting to compare maintenance costs of children between countries with similar yet different family policy regimes because this could yield valuable lessons for researchers and policy-makers and also for the sake of methodological development. In this study, we aim to conduct a comparative analysis of the equivalence scales in Austria, I...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to calculate the subjective equivalence scale and poverty rates for Poland and compare them to equivalence scales in Eastern and Western Europe. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data for 2005-2012. In particular, the authors capture...

The article analyzes the physical activity of people over the age of 50 in international comparison (selected European countries and the US). The analysis explores longitudinal and cohort dimensions of the SHARE and HRS databases. The influence of current and past physical activity on the functional status of individuals 50+ is analyzed with partic...

Objectives: We analyse the need for and the provision of care to individuals aged at least 50 years in their last year of life as compared with the previous year of life. Methods: We explain the functional status in ordered logit and who provides care in multinomial logit using the data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Re...

RÉSUMÉ Dans notre étude nous avons examiné l’influence des événements du passé des individus sur le risque de décès des Européens âgés de plus de 50 ans, en contrôlant autres variables pertinentes. Notre analyse était basée sur les données d’entretiens biographiques rétrospectifs, les données d’entretiens réguliers au suivi longitudinal et celles d...

Data from the SHARE panel (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe), expanded in the third round SHARELIFE panel, show that the events of the past are important for the development of the current situation and the economic health of living in Europe people aged at least 50 years. Self-assessment of health status and handshake power differ...

Data from the SHARE panel (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe), expanded in the third round SHARELIFE panel, show that the events of the past are important for the development of the current situation and the economic health of living in Europe people aged at least 50 years. Self--assessment of health status and handshake power diffe...

In this study we analysed how daily living limitations and care providers change at the end of life in Europe. Transition matrices for the number of ADLs and IADLs performed with difficulty and for the relation to care providers were obtained using data on deceased individuals from the Study of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We f...

The paper aims at describing the last year of life of Polish people in comparison with previous years of their life. We include international context as well as gender differences in the analysis. A descriptive part of the paper is based on data from end-of-life interviews of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The second...

The goal of this study is to find covariates impacting most profoundly on the risk of death. Individuals aged 50 and more, observed in the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, are examined. The data include 1,692 deceased individuals who took part in up to 3 waves of data collection. Our results, relying on the proportional hazard mod...

Ageing populations in Europe are facing opportunities, but also threats, such as insufficient provision of care to the elderly. Private transfers, that is, transfers that do not involve any public institutions, are one solution to this problem. In this paper, the hypothesis on altruistic transfers within families is investigated. We distinguish fam...

The article presents preliminary analysis of SHARE data about financial and nonfinancial support between households. Frequency of given and received financial and nonfinancial transfers, inheritance and grandchildren care were investigated in international comparison. More detailed analyses focus on Poland and take into account donors and recipient...