Focus on economic outcomes in later life : public policy, health, and cumulative advantage / Stephen Crystal and Dennis Shea ; volume editors ; K. Warner Schaie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: cumulative advantage, public policy, and inequality in later life / Stephen Crystal and Dennis G. Shea -- Cumulative advantage and gerontological therory / Angela O'Rand -- Income, wealth, and late-life inequality in the United States / Edward Wolff -- Cross-national comparisons of retirement income / Edward Whitehouse and Richard Disney -- Measurement of late-life income and wealth / James Smith -- Gender differences in pension wealth and their impact on late-life inequality / Richard Johnson, Usha Sambamoorthi, and Stephen Crystal -- Human capital and the long-term effects of education on late-life inequality / George Farkas -- Socioeconomic background and midlife health in the United States / Deborah Carr -- Late-life morbidity trajectories and SES / Robert Schoeni and Vicki Freedman, and Robert Wallace -- Saving, public policy, and late-life inequality / Anamaria Lusardi, Jonathan Skinner, and Steven Venti -- The economic future of the baby boom generation / Richard Johnson and Stephen Crystal -- Conclusion: prospects for retirement resources in an aging society / Stephen Crystal and Dennis G. Shea.

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