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Perspectives on the economics of aging

Contributors to this volume investigate several important issues including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity, the changes in savings behaviour and investment priorities and the effects of legislative changes in the 1980s and the booming stock market of the 1990s.

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English
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539

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Perspectives on the economics of aging
2004, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

The transition to personal accounts and increasing retirement wealth: macro- and microevidence / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise. Comment: Sylvester J. Schieber
For better or for worse: default effects and 401(k) savings behavior
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick. Comment: James M. Poterba
Aging and housing equity: another look / Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise. Comment: Jonathan Skinner
Intergenerational transfers and savings behavior / Jeffrey R. Brown, Scott J. Weisbenner. Comment: Alan J. Auerbach
Wealth portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States / James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith. Comment: John B. Shoven
Mortality, income, and income inequality over time in Britain and the United States / Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson. Comment: James Banks
Does money protect health status? evidence from South African pensions / Anne Case. Comment: Robert T. Jensen
Socioeconomic status, nutrition, and health among the elderly / Robert T. Jensen. Comment David M. Cutler
Changes in the age distribution of mortality over the twentieth century / David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara
Area differences in utilization of medical care and mortality among U.S. elderly / Victor R. Fuchs, Mark McClellan, Jonathan Skinner. Comment: Joseph P. Newhouse
Healthy, wealthy, and wise? tests for direct causal paths between health and socioeconomic status / Peter Adams, Michael D. Hurd, Daniel McFadden, Angela Merrill, Tiago Ribeiro. Comment: James M. Poterba.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Chicago
Series
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report, Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 539 p. :
Number of pages
539

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL15561249M
ISBN 10
0226903052, 0226386805
LCCN
2004041253, 2004041254
OCLC/WorldCat
54446241, 54424921
Goodreads
6700540
6132442

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OL16928442W

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