Analyses in the Economics of Aging
This must-have series continues to be the authoritative source on aging and how best to accommodate it financially, at the individual and national levels. This tenth volume covers everything from retirement savings accounts and Medicare to saving habits in a range of countries and predictors of health events. We simply will never get away from debates over medical expenditures, efficiency, and the socioeconomic status of users. Therefore, the insights of this volume will provide policymakers, legislators, and academics alike better footing as they grapple with the central issue: Is the value of every dollar spent on specific types of health care equal to the social benefits of the dollar that could have been spent for other worthy causes? Money management by the elderly is another hallmark of this series, and contributors devote several chapters to savings behavior and the relative advantages of different retirement investment strategies employed in anticipation of changing health status and living arrangements later in life. Contributors measure the benefits of non-medical interventions in such startling trends as the 25% reduction in disability among U.S. elderly in the past two decades. Income distribution, education, and manual work are also analyzed in trajectories of health. Case studies of Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and India, moreover, provide the international comparative component readers have come to expect from this series.
Other Persons: | Wise, David A. (contributor) |
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Institutions: | University of Chicago Press |
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