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Beginning in September 2003, the Retirement Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research conducted a coordinated series of investigations on Social Security in an environment of continually changing demographics, health trends, longevity, labor markets, economic conditions, and...
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One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. Building on findings from earlier...
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The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, Explorations in the Economics of Aging yields important new findings on...
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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 Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject....
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relationship between health and financial prosperity. Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the … benefit pensions to employee-controlled retirement savings plans. Further, the legislative reforms of the 1980s and the …
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, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the … Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an … examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight …
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authors consider the interactions between financial circumstances in later life, such as household savings and home ownership …
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The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs’ overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging of the Baby Boomers is just one part of the...
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