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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Topics in the Economics of Aging; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Three Models of Retirement: Computational Complexity versus Predictive Validity; 2. Stocks, Bonds, and Pension Wealth; 3. Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod- Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors; 4. The Provision of lime to the Elderly by Their Children; 5. Wealth Depletion and Life-Cycle Consumption by the Elderly; 6. Patterns of Aging in Thailand and CBte d'Ivoire 6.

7. Changing the Japanese Social Security System from Pay as You Go to Actuarially Fair 7.8. Payment Source and Episodes of Institutionalization 8.; 9. Incentive Regulation of Nursing Homes: Specification Tests of the Markov Model 9.; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;

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Print version: Topics in the Economics of Aging

978-0-226-90298-2

978-0-226-90298-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-226-90334-7 ( : 92.5 (NL))

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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