Themes in the economics of aging
By: edited by David A. Wise.
Contributors: Wise, David A.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Aging -- Economic aspects -- Congresses; Older people -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Ostrom Social Sciences Collection.
Description: This volume analyses a nexus of age-related issues. It looks at the implications of private and public personal retirement plans, focusing on the impact of 401(k) programs on retirement strategies. Next, the 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.
Notes: "Papers presented at a conference held at Carefree, Arizona in May 1999"--Pref.

Gift of Peter and Alma Ostrom.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preretirement cashouts and foregone retirement saving : implications for 401(k) asset accumulation -- James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise; title: Personal security account 2000 plan, market outcomes, and risk -- Sylvester J. Schieber and John B. Shoven; title: Are the elderly really over-annuitized? New evidence on life insurance and bequests -- Jeffrey R. Brown; title: Mortality, education, income, and inequality among American cohorts -- Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson; title: Predictors of mortality among the elderly -- Michael D. Hurd, Daniel McFadden, and Angela Merrill; title: Trends in Medicare spending near the end of life -- Jeffrey Geppert and Mark McClellan; title: Concentration of medical spending : an update -- David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara; title: Sources of cost difference in health insurance plans : a decomposition analysis -- Matthew Eichner, Mark McCellan, and David A. Wise; title: Incentive effects of Social Security under an uncertain disability option -- Axel Börsch-Supan; title: Social Security incentives for retirement -- Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber; title: Anticipated and actual bequests-- Michael D. Hurd and James P. Smith.