Themes in the Economics of Aging (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226902846 ISBN 13: 9780226902845

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

In the past few years, the economic ramifications of aging have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by David A. Wise. In this volume, Wise and his collaborators continue to analyze a nexus of age-related issues.

This volume begins by looking at the implications of private and public personal retirement plans, focusing in particular on the impact of 401(k) programs on retirement strategies in light of potential social security reform and factors such as annuitization and on asset accumulation. Next, the often-observed relationship between health and wealth is dissected from two different perspectives and correlated with striking increases in health-care spending over the past two decades, despite the improved health of older populations. The volume concludes with an investigation of the retirement effects of various social security provisions in both U.S. and German systems.

This carefully developed collection expands the current investigative focus and broadens the dialogue on a rapidly growing area of social and economic concern.

About this title

About the Author:

David A. Wise is the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program on aging and the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the editor or coeditor of more than a dozen books, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226902846
• ISBN 13: 9780226902845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Wise David A.