Frontiers in the economics of aging [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David A. Wise

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.26
• Soggetto topico: Aging - Economic aspects - United States; Older people - United States - Economic conditions; Retirement - Economic aspects - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: retirement, aging, savings, finance, investment, ira, 401k, personal saving, health care, inequality, poverty, insurance, labor, employment, pensions, wealth, public policy, legislation, economics, nonfiction, asset accumulation, taxation, tax shelters, medical costs, spending patterns, medicare, social security, elderly, income
• Altri autori: WiseDavid A
• Note generali: "Papers presented at a conference held at Carefree, Arizona in April 1997"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Personal Retirement Saving Programs and Asset Accumulation: Reconciling the Evidence -- 2. Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving -- 3. The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap -- 4. The Medical Costs of the Young and Old: A Forty-Year Perspective -- 5. Diagnosis and Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life -- 6. The Impact of Intrafamily Correlations on the Viability of Catastrophic Insurance -- 7. Health Events, Health Insurance, and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey -- 8. Consumption and Savings Balances of the Elderly: Experimental Evidence on Survey Response Bias -- 9. Stochastic Forecasts for Social Security -- 10. Health, Income, and Inequality over the Life Cycle -- 11. Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly becomes increasingly important to public policy. Frontiers in the Economics in Aging directs attention to four topics: the role of retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s in personal saving; the economics of health care; new advances in research methodology; and aging in relation to inequality. Some of the issues analyzed within these topics are the implications of rising personal retirement saving in recent years, how health and health insurance affect labor supply, and the effects of pensions on the distribution of wealth. David Wise's lucid introduction provides an overview of each paper. In addition to this book's appeal for specialists and microeconomists, it offers immediately practical ideas and methods for shaping public policy. In fact, one of the papers in this volume, "The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap," helped to spur new legislation that reformed laws on pension distribution.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontiers in the economics of aging
• ISBN: 1-281-22412-X; 9786611224127; 0-226-90323-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784816503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research project report.