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Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1A, provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance and healthcare costs. This text explores the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance, health care costs, the interests of policymakers, and the role of academics. As the first of two volumes, users will find it a great resource on the topics associated with the economics of aging. Together with its companion, volume 1B, this work includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.

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Author:   John Piggott (Director, Australian Institute for Population Aging Resources, University of New South Wales, Australia) ,  Alan Woodland (Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   North-Holland
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9780444538420

ISBN 10:   0444538429
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   29 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Anatomy of Aging 1. Demographics Globally and Through Time David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca The Household Perspective 2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision Richard Blundell and Eric French 3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security Alessandro Cigno 4. Consumption and Saving Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti 5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline Michael Keane and Susan Thorp 6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke Economic Impacts of Population Aging 7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth Ronald Lee 8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly Hanming Fang 9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott 10. The Political Economy of Population Aging Georges Casamatta and Loïc Batté 11. Migration and Demographic Shift Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva 12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections Michael Sherris 13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp Public Policy with an Aging Population 14. Taxation Alan Woodland and John Piggott 15. Aging and Poverty Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand 16. Social Security and Public Insurance Axel Borsch-Supan 17. Health and Long Term Care Edward Norton 18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu

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John Piggott is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), and of the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and also holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship. He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement. Alan Woodland is currently Scientia Professor of Economics and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics within the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Econometrics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the recipient of the Distinguished Economist Award of the Economics Society of Australia. He was previously a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economics Association.

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