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Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wise, David A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Series:NBER conference report.
Subjects:
Aging > Economic aspects > Congresses.
Older people > Economic conditions > Congresses.
Older people > United States > Economic conditions > Congresses.
Retirement income > Congresses.
Older people > Medical care > Costs > Congresses.
Medicare > Congresses.
Older people.
Economics.
Retirement.
Cross-cultural studies.
Aged
Economics
Retirement
Aged, 80 and over
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Health Status
Retirement > economics
Socioeconomic Factors
Vieillissement > Aspect économique > Congrès.
Personnes âgées > Conditions économiques > Congrès.
Personnes âgées > États-Unis > Conditions économiques > Congrès.
Revenu de retraite > Congrès.
Personnes âgées > Soins médicaux > Coût > Congrès.
Medicare > Congrès.
Personnes âgées.
Économie politique.
Retraite.
Études transculturelles.
elderly.
economics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.
Older people
Cross-cultural studies
Aging > Economic aspects
Medicare
Older people > Economic conditions
Older people > Medical care > Costs
Retirement income
United States
Statistics
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Actes de congrès.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David A. Wise
  • Utility evaluation of risk in retirement saving accounts / James M Poterba [and others]
  • Passive decisions and potent defaults / James J. Choi [and others]
  • Characterizing the experiences of high-cost users in Medicare / Thomas MaCurdy, Jeff Geppert
  • The efficiency of medicare / Jonathan Skinner [and others]
  • Intensive medical technology and the reduction in disability / David M. Cutler
  • Broken down by work and sex: how our health declines / Anne Case, Angus Deaton
  • Consequences and predictors of new health events / James P. Smith
  • Healthy, wealthy, and knowing where to live: trajectories of health, wealth, and living arrangements among the oldest old / Florian Heiss [and others]
  • Institutions and saving for retirement: comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn, Constantijn Panis
  • Household saving in Germany: results of the first SAVE study / Axel Börsch-Supan, Lothar Essig
  • Caste, culture, and the status and well-being of widows in India / Robert Jensen
  • Individual subjective survival curves / Li Gan [and others].

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