ISBN:
9780226902982
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p.)
Series Statement:
NBER-Project Report
Series Statement:
National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
Parallel Title:
Print version Topics in the Economics of Aging
DDC:
305.2/6/0973
Keywords:
Older people -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses..
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Older people -- Economic conditions -- Congresses..
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Old age -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses..
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Old age -- Economic aspects -- Congresses..
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Retirement -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses..
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Retirement -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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Old age ; Economic aspects ; Congresses
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Old age ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Congresses
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Older people ; Economic conditions ; Congresses
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Older people ; United States ; Economic conditions ; Congresses
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Retirement ; Economic aspects ; Congresses
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Retirement ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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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