Wealth, work, and health
Subtitle: innovations in measurement in the social sciences : essays in honor of F. Thomas Juster
By: James P. Smith and Robert J. Willis, editors.
Contributors: Smith, James P., 1943-; Juster, F. Thomas 1926-; Willis, Robert J. 1940-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research -- Congresses.; Wealth -- Research -- Congresses.; Labor -- Research -- Congresses.; Health -- Research -- Congresses.
Description: "Wealth, Work, and Health takes as its inspiration the illustrious career of F. Thomas Juster, former director of the institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, who devoted forty years to the question of how to measure behavior by asking people questions about the objective and subjective circumstances of their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

"Essays in the volume address advances in measurement as well as disciplinary attitudes toward various forms of measurement - for example, the resistance of economics to qualitative measurements. Specific topics include measurement of expenditures and wealth; lifetime earnings, saving choices, and wealth at retirement; inheritances and bequests; the impact of education and heart attack on smoking cessation among older adults; and intergenerational transfers.

Crossing many disciplinary lines, this volume should be of interest to economists, especially those interested in health, as well as sociologists and demographers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
A selection of 12 papers presented at a conference held in December 1996 at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) to honor Juster's contributions and mark his June 1997 retirement from ISR and the University of Michigan.