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Explorations in the economics of aging / edited by David A. Wise.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: National Bureau of Economic Research conference reportPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 388 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226903385
  • 0226903389
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Explorations in the economics of aging.DDC classification:
  • 305.26 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1061 .E975 2011eb
NLM classification:
  • 2011 G-351
  • WT 30
Online resources:
Contents:
Family status transitions, latent health, and the post-retirement evolution of assets / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; Comment : David Laibson -- How does simplified disclosure affect individuals' mutual fund choices? / John Beshears [and others] ; Comment : Steven F. Venti -- The risk of out-of-pocket health care expenditure at the end of life / Samuel Marshall, Kathleen McGarry, and Jonathan S. Skinner ; Comment : David R. Weir -- Cost growth in Medicare : 1992 to 2006 / Amitabh Chandra, Lindsay Sabik, and Jonathan S. Skinner -- The demand for Medicare part D prescription drug coverage : evidence from four waves of the retirement perspectives survey / Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter ; Comment : Amy Finkelstein -- DIfferential mortality by income and Social Security progressivity / Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov ; Comment : Michael D. Hurd -- Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey / John J. McArdle, James P. Smith, and Robert Willis ; Comment : Finis Welch -- Aging, religion, and health / Angus Deaton ; Comment : James P. Smith -- Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the United States / Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest ; Comment : Angus Deaton -- Is decentralized iron fortification a feasible option to fight anemia among the poorest? / Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Rachel Glennerster ; Comment : Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams -- Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high-priced funerals in South Africa / Anne Case and Alicia Menendez ; Comment: Esther Duflo.
Summary: Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations this book yields important new findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence the effects of this demographic shift.
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Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations this book yields important new findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence the effects of this demographic shift.

Family status transitions, latent health, and the post-retirement evolution of assets / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; Comment : David Laibson -- How does simplified disclosure affect individuals' mutual fund choices? / John Beshears [and others] ; Comment : Steven F. Venti -- The risk of out-of-pocket health care expenditure at the end of life / Samuel Marshall, Kathleen McGarry, and Jonathan S. Skinner ; Comment : David R. Weir -- Cost growth in Medicare : 1992 to 2006 / Amitabh Chandra, Lindsay Sabik, and Jonathan S. Skinner -- The demand for Medicare part D prescription drug coverage : evidence from four waves of the retirement perspectives survey / Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter ; Comment : Amy Finkelstein -- DIfferential mortality by income and Social Security progressivity / Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov ; Comment : Michael D. Hurd -- Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey / John J. McArdle, James P. Smith, and Robert Willis ; Comment : Finis Welch -- Aging, religion, and health / Angus Deaton ; Comment : James P. Smith -- Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the United States / Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest ; Comment : Angus Deaton -- Is decentralized iron fortification a feasible option to fight anemia among the poorest? / Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Rachel Glennerster ; Comment : Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams -- Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high-priced funerals in South Africa / Anne Case and Alicia Menendez ; Comment: Esther Duflo.

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