Frontiers in the Economics of Aging; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Personal Retirement Plans; II. Health: Spending Patterns and Implications and Effect on Work; III. Methodological Innovations; IV. Views of Inequality; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
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