Frontiers in the economics of aging /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. |
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| Description: | ix, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | A National Bureau of Economic Research project report National Bureau of Economic Research project report. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has original dustjacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3308716 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Personal Retirement Plans
- 1. Personal Retirement Saving Programs and Asset Accumulation: Reconciling the Evidence
- 2. Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving
- 3. The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap
- II. Health: Spending Patterns and Implications and Effect on Work
- 4. The Medical Costs of the Young and Old: A Forty-Year Perspective
- 5. Diagnosis and Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life
- 6. The Impact of Intrafamily Correlations on the Viability of Catastrophic Insurance
- 7. Health Events, Health Insurance, and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
- III. Methodological Innovations
- 8. Consumption and Savings Balances of the Elderly: Experimental Evidence on Survey Response Bias
- 9. Stochastic Forecasts for Social Security Ronald Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar Comment: Sylvester J. Schieber
- IV. View of Inequality
- 10. Health, Income, and Inequality over the Life Cycle Angus Deaton
- 11. Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
