Research findings in the economics of aging (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Disability, Work and Retirement - 1 - New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP - John B. Shoven - Comment - Erzo F.P. Luttmer - 2 - Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance - Axel Börsch-Supan - Comment - Robert J. Willis - 3 - Labor market status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences - Arie Kapteyn ... [et al.] - Comment - Michael Hurd -- - Education and Disability - 4 - The education gradient in old age disability - David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney - Comment - Anne Case - 5 - Social interactions and smoking - David M. Cutler and Edward L. Glaeser - Comment - Arie Kapteyn - 6 - Education and the prevalence of pain - Steven J. Atlas and Jonathan Skinner -- - Economic Circumstances and Health - 7 - Aging and death under a dollar a day
- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo - Comment - Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams - 8 - What's past is prologue: the impact of early life health and circumstance on health in old age - Anne Case - Comment - James P. Smith - 9 - Income, aging, health, and well-being around the world: evidence from the Gallup world poll - Angus Deaton - Comment - Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams -- - Retirement Saving - 10 - The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement - James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise - Comment - Robert J. Willis - 11 - The impact of employer matching on savings plan participation under automatic enrollment - John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian - Comment - Daniel McFadden - 12 - Housing price volatility and downsizing in later life - James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield, and James P. Smith - Comment - Steven F. Venti -- - Medicare - 13
- The narrowing dispersion of Medicare expenditures 1997-2005 - Jay Bhattacharya, Alan Garber, and Thomas MaCurdy - Comment - Jonathan Skinner - 14 - Mind the gap! consumer perceptions and choices of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans - Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter - Comment - Amy Finkelstein
The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in this book a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject