<DIV>Since 1970 the United States government has spent over half a billion dollars on social experiments intended to assess the effect of potential tax policies, health insurance plans, housing subsidies, and other programs. Was it worth it? Was anything learned from these experiments that could not...</div>

<DIV>As America's population ages, economic research related to the elderly becomes increasingly important to public policy. <BR><BR><I>Frontiers in the Economics in Aging</I> directs attention to four topics: the role of retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s in personal saving; the economics of health care;...</i></div>

<DIV>In recent years a decline in the labor force participation of older workers has combined with rapid current and projected increases in the number of older Americans, producing major policy debates over looming "crises" in social security and, to a lesser extent, in the private pension system....</div>

<DIV><I>Analyses in the Economics of Aging </I>summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement...</i></div>

<DIV><DIV>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 <I>Research Findings in the Economics of Aging</I>, a group of leading researchers takes an eclectic view of the subject....</i></div></div>

<DIV>This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics...</div>

<DIV>This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth. <BR><BR>Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the...</div>

<DIV><DIV>The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in life styles enable retirees to live longer than ever before, the stress on national budgets will increase...</div></div>

<DIV>The original essays and commentary in this volume—the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program—address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older...</div>

<DIV><P>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, <I>Explorations in the Economics of Aging</I> yields important new findings on...</i></p></div>