Perspectives on the economics of aging
By: edited by David A. Wise.
Contributors: Wise, David A.
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions; Retirement -- Economic aspects -- United States; Retirement income -- United States; 401(k) plans; Individual retirement accounts -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: For better or for worse: default effects and 401(k) savings behavior; title: James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick. Comment: James M. Poterba; title: Aging and housing equity: another look / Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise. Comment: Jonathan Skinner; title: Intergenerational transfers and savings behavior / Jeffrey R. Brown, Scott J. Weisbenner. Comment: Alan J. Auerbach; title: Wealth portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States / James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith. Comment: John B. Shoven; title: Mortality, income, and income inequality over time in Britain and the United States / Angus Deaton, Christina Paxson. Comment: James Banks; title: Does money protect health status? evidence from South African pensions / Anne Case. Comment: Robert T. Jensen; title: Socioeconomic status, nutrition, and health among the elderly / Robert T. Jensen. Comment David M. Cutler; title: Changes in the age distribution of mortality over the twentieth century / David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara; title: Area differences in utilization of medical care and mortality among U.S. elderly / Victor R. Fuchs, Mark McClellan, Jonathan Skinner. Comment: Joseph P. Newhouse; title: 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.