Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging

by John Piggott (Editor), Alan Woodland (Editor)

Overview

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s, including information from general economics journals, from various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor markets and human resource issues, from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and from papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others. - Dissolves the barriers between policymakers and scholars by presenting comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issues - Synthesizes valuable data on the topic from a variety of journals dating back to the late 1970s in a convenient, comprehensive resource - Presents diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concerns - Offers comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions of the essential aspects of the economics of population aging

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444634047
Publisher:	North Holland
Publication date:	11/21/2016
Series:	Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1146
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About the Author

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.

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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As the first volume in a two volume collection, this book provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance, healthcare costs, and the economic literature on the role of policymakers, labor, demographics, housing, and more