retirement. It explores well-established relationships among economic circumstances, health, and mortality, as well as the …

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 … health, mortality, and medical care, contributors present evidence from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Russia …

, 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 …

authors consider the interactions between financial circumstances in later life, such as household savings and home ownership …

influence the effects of this demographic shift. It explores topics such as the implications of differential mortality rates by …