Analyses in the economics of aging /

"Analyses in the Economics of Aging presents 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 savi...

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Otros Autores: Wise, David A. (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / David A. Wise
  • Utility evaluation of risk in retirement saving accounts / James M. Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise
  • Passive decisions and potent defaults / James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Andrew Metrick
  • Characterizing the experiences of high-cost users in Medicare / Thomas MaCurdy and Jeff Geppert
  • The efficiency of Medicare / Jonathan Skinner, Elliott S. Fisher and John E. Wennberg
  • Intensive medical technology and the reduction in disability / David M. Cutler
  • Broken down by work and sex : how our health declines / Anne Case and 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, Michael D. Hurd and Axel Borsch-Supan
  • Institutions and saving for retirement : comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn and Costantijn Panis
  • Household saving in Germany : results of the first SAVE study / Axel Borsch-Supan and Lothar Essig
  • Caste, culture, and the status and well-being of widows in India / Robert Jensen
  • Individual subjective survival curves / Li Gan, Michael D. Hurd and Daniel McFadden.