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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging /

The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging of the Baby Boomers is just one part of the r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Discoveries in the Economics of Aging (Conference) Carefree, Ariz.)
Otros Autores: Wise, David A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Colección:NBER conference report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction / David A. Wise and Richard Woodbury
  • Evidence for significant compression of morbidity in the elderly U.S. population / David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, and Mary Beth Landrum ; comment : Daniel McFadden and Wei Xie
  • The lifetime risk of nursing home use / Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Susann Rohwedder ; comment : David M. Cutler
  • A comparison of different measures of health and their relation to labor force transitions at older ages / Arie Kapteyn and Erik Meijer ; comment : Steven F. Venti
  • The nexus of social security benefits, health, and wealth at death / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; comment : Jonathan Skinner
  • Understanding the SES gradient in health among the elderly : the role of childhood circumstances / Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter ; comment: Robert J. Willis
  • Early retirement, mental health and social networks / Axel Börsch-Supan and Morten Schuth ; comment : Elaine Kelly
  • Spousal health effects : the role of selection / James Banks, Elaine Kelly, and James P. Smith ; comment : Amitabh Chandra
  • Grandpa and the snapper : the wellbeing of the elderly who live with children / Angus Deaton and Arthur A. Stone ; comment : David Laibson
  • Expectations, aging and cognitive decline / Gábor Kézdi and Robert J. Willis ; comment : John B. Shoven
  • Nutrition, iron deficiency anemia, and the demand for iron fortified salt : evidence from an experiment in rural Bihar / Abhijit Banerjee, Sharon Barnhardt, and Esther Duflo ; comment : Amitabh Chandra
  • The diffusion of new medical technology : the case of drug-eluting stents / Amitabh Chandra, David Malenka, and Jonathan Skinner ; comment : Jay Bhattacharya
  • Who uses the Roth 401(k), and how do they use it? / John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian ; comment : James M. Poterba.