Topics in the economics of aging [electronic resource] / edited by David A. Wise.
Material type: TextSeries: National Bureau of Economic Research project reportPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 315 p.) : illISBN:- 0226903346 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226903347 (electronic bk.)
- 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
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging
- Pensioen
- Ouderdom
- Economische aspecten
- Ageing Economics
- United States
- 305.2/6/0973 20
- HQ1064.U5 T59 1992eb
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Papers presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, Apr. 5-7, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 ... [et al.]. Comment / Steven F. Venti -- The provision of time to the elderly by their children / Axel Börsch-Supan ... [et al.]. 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.
Description based on print version record.
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.
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