Topics in the economics of aging /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research project report National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
Subject:	Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Older people -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Old age -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses. Old age -- Economic aspects -- Congresses. Retirement -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses. Retirement -- Economic aspects -- Congresses. Old age -- Economic aspects. Older people -- Economic conditions. Retirement -- Economic aspects. United States. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201908

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Other authors / contributors:	Wise, David A. National Bureau of Economic Research.
ISBN:	0226903346 9780226903347 0226902986 9780226902982 9780226903347
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Papers presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, Apr. 5-7, 1990. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Topics in the economics of aging. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992

Table of Contents:

Three models of retirement : computational complexity versus predictive validity / Robin L. Lumsdaine, James H. Stock, and David A. Wise. Comment / Sylvester J. Schieber
Stocks, bonds, and pension wealth / Thomas E. MaCurdy and John B. Shoven. Comment / Jonathan S. Skinner
Health, children, and elderly living arrangements : a multiperiod-multinomial probit model with unobserved heterogeneity and autocorrelated errors / Axel Börsch-Supan [and others]. Comment / Steven F. Venti
The provision of time to the elderly by their children / Axel Börsch-Supan [and others]. Comment / Konrad Stahl
Wealth depletion and life-cycle consumption by the elderly / Michael D. Hurd. Comment / Lee A. Lillard.
Patterns of aging in Thailand and Côte d'Ivoire / Angus Deaton and Christina H. Paxson. Comment / Fumio Hayashi
Changing the Japanese social security system from pay as you go to actuarially fair / Tatsuo Hatta and Noriyoshi Oguchi. Comment / Edward P. Lazear
Payment source and episodes of institutionalization / Alan M. Garber and Thomas E. MaCurdy. Comment / Paul J. Gertler
Incentive regulation of nursing homes : specification tests of the Markov model / Edward C. Norton. Comment / Sherwin Rosen.

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