Inquiries In The Economics Of Aging

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226903255

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For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people. Within the next twenty years, an unprecedented proportion of Americans will be over sixty-five. New research in the economics of aging is an essential element of understanding what the future holds for this aging population. Inquiries in the Economics of Aging presents both empirical papers that consider questions that are fundamental to public policy and more theoretical contributions that lay new groundwork for future research in the economics of aging. Inquiries in the Economics of Aging provides a timely overview of some of the most important questions facing researchers on aging and outlines new techniques and models that may help to answer these questions. This important volume will be of great interest to specialists and policy makers as it paves the way for future analysis.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226903163

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Investigations in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. Building on findings from earlier editions in this National Bureau of Economic Research series, Investigations in the Economics of Aging focuses on the changing financial circumstances of the elderly and the relationship of these circumstances to health and health care. Among the topics addressed are the significance of out-of-pocket health care costs, the effects of inflation on social security, and the impact of the recent financial crisis on Americans’ well-being. Encompassing new data and advances in research methodology, the developments presented in this volume will have important implications for economies worldwide.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226903088

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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject. Among the broad topics discussed are work and retirement behavior, disability, and their relationship to the structure of retirement and disability policies. While choices about when to retire are made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care, and this volume includes cross-national analyses of the effects of such programs on these decisions. Furthermore, the volume also offers in-depth analysis of the effects of retirement plans, employer contributions, and housing prices on retirement. It explores well-established relationships among economic circumstances, health, and mortality, as well as the effects of poverty and lower levels of economic development on health and life satisfaction. By combining micro and macro evidence, this volume continues a tradition of expanding the research agenda on the economics of aging.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226426679

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Insights in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades. This has drawn growing interest to research on the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they age. Many individuals are retiring from paid work, yet they are living longer than ever. Their well-being is shaped by their past decisions such as their saving behavior, as well as by current and future economic conditions, health status, medical innovations, and a rapidly evolving landscape of policy incentives and supports. The contributions to Insights in the Economics of Aging uncover how financial, physical, and emotional well-being are integrally related. The authors consider the interactions between financial circumstances in later life, such as household savings and home ownership, physical circumstances such as health and disability, and emotional well-being, including happiness and mental health.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226903262

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Issues in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226903224

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The Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

The Economics of Aging presents results from an ongoing National Bureau of Economic Research project. Contributors consider the housing mobility and living arrangements of the elderly, their labor force participation and retirement, the economics of their health care, and their financial status. The goal of the research is to further our understanding both of the factors that determine the well-being of the elderly and of the consequences that follow from an increasingly older population with longer individual life spans. Each paper is accompanied by critical commentary.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226903231

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Frontiers in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly becomes increasingly important to public policy. Frontiers in the Economics in Aging directs attention to four topics: the role of retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s in personal saving; the economics of health care; new advances in research methodology; and aging in relation to inequality. Some of the issues analyzed within these topics are the implications of rising personal retirement saving in recent years, how health and health insurance affect labor supply, and the effects of pensions on the distribution of wealth. David Wise's lucid introduction provides an overview of each paper. In addition to this book's appeal for specialists and microeconomists, it offers immediately practical ideas and methods for shaping public policy. In fact, one of the papers in this volume, "The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap," helped to spur new legislation that reformed laws on pension distribution.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226146126

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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs’ overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging of the Baby Boomers is just one part of the rapidly changing landscape of aging in the United States and around the world. The latest volume in the NBER’s Economics of Aging series, Discoveries in the Economics of Aging assembles incisive analyses of the most recent research in this expanding field of study. A substantive focus of the volume is the well-documented relationship between health and financial well-being, especially as people age. The contributors explore this issue from a variety of perspectives within the context of the changing demographic landscape. The first part of the volume explores recent trends in health measurement, including the use of alternative measurement indices. Later contributions explore, among other topics, alternate determinants of health, including retirement, marital status, and cohabitation with family, and the potential for innovations, interventions, and public policy to improve health and financial well-being.

Author : John Piggott,Alan Woodland
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780444634047

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Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging by John Piggott,Alan Woodland Pdf

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s, including information from general economics journals, from various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor markets and human resource issues, from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and from papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others. Dissolves the barriers between policymakers and scholars by presenting comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issues Synthesizes valuable data on the topic from a variety of journals dating back to the late 1970s in a convenient, comprehensive resource Presents diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concerns Offers comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions of the essential aspects of the economics of population aging

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226903217

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Analyses in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of health, wealth, and living arrangements over the life course. Keeping with the global tradition of previous volumes, Analyses in the Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight of widows in India. Carefully compiled and containing some of the most cutting-edge research and analysis available, this volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement behaviors.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226903316

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Studies in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

Studies in the Economics of Aging is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in The Economics of Aging (1989), Issues in the Economics of Aging (1990), and Topics in the Economics of Aging (1992), this volume examines elderly population growth and government spending, life expectancy and health, saving for retirement and housing values, aging in Germany and Taiwan, and the utilization of nursing home and other long-term care.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Old age
ISBN : OCLC:53153184

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The Economics of Aging by Anonim Pdf

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226903378

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Explorations in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

"This is the thirteenth in a series of NBER volumes on the Economics of Aging"--Introduction.

Author : James H. Schulz
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000195961

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The Economics of Aging by James H. Schulz Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, this text addresses the economic aspects of ageing. It provides an examination of the significant advances and changes that have taken place in recent years as they affect US social policy and individual retirement decisions.

Author : David A. Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226903347

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Topics in the Economics of Aging by David A. Wise Pdf

The original essays and commentary in this volume—the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program—address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by children in the postwar period; investigate the relation between nursing home stays and the source of payment for the care; and offer initial findings on the implications of differences between developed and developing countries for understanding aging issues and determining appropriate directions for research.