Eveline M. Burns: Social economist, by V. Shlakman.--Transfer and redistribution as social process, by R.J. Lampman.--Income maintenance: social insurance and public assistance, by I.C. Merriam.--Health services: problems of cost and distribution, by H.M. Somers.--An emerging system of income...

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP / John B. Shoven -- Comment / Erzo F. P. Luttmer -- Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance /...

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....