04221nam 2200721Ia 450 991082313670332120240514011844.01-283-07851-197866130785130-226-90338-910.7208/9780226903385(CKB)2560000000072319(EBL)683449(OCoLC)714569513(SSID)ssj0000469027(PQKBManifestationID)12161652(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469027(PQKBWorkID)10507682(PQKB)10322957(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115815(MiAaPQ)EBC683449(DE-B1597)524386(DE-B1597)9780226903385(Au-PeEL)EBL683449(CaPaEBR)ebr10464681(CaONFJC)MIL307851(EXLCZ)99256000000007231920100723d2011 uy 0engurun#---|uu|utxtccrExplorations in the economics of aging /edited by David A. Wise1st ed.Chicago ;London University of Chicago Press20111 online resource (401 p.)National Bureau of Economic Research conference reportDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-90337-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. Family Status Transitions, Latent Health, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Assets --2. How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices? --3. The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at the End of Life --4. Cost Growth in Medicare: 1992 to 2006 --5. The Demand for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage: Evidence from Four Waves of the Retirement Perspectives Survey --6. Differential Mortality by Income and Social Security Progressivity --7. Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey --8. Aging, Religion, and Health --9. Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the United States --10. Is Decentralized Iron Fortification a Feasible Option to Fight Anemia among the Poorest? --11. Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High-Priced Funerals in South Africa --Contributors --Author Index --Subject IndexThe next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, Explorations in the Economics of Aging yields important new findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence the effects of this demographic shift. It explores topics such as the implications of differential mortality rates by income on Social Security, the link between cognition and economic outcomes, and scale variations in self-reported work disability. This volume will be an important reference for economists and policymakers alike.National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.AgingEconomic aspectsCongressesRetirementMedical care, Cost ofMedicareaging, elderly, retirement, social security, medicare, households, economics, policy, government, mortality, income, wealth, poverty, cognition, alzheimers, dementia, disability, medical care, healthcare, saving, assets, mutual fund, simplified disclosure, prescription drug coverage, religion, health, work, employment, decentralized iron fortification, anemia, death, funerals, south africa, nonfiction.AgingEconomic aspectsRetirement.Medical care, Cost of.Medicare.305.26Wise David A124389National Bureau of Economic Research.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823136703321Explorations in the economics of aging3990551UNINA