Over coming decades changes in population age structure will have profound implications for the macroeconomy, influencing economic growth, generational equity, human capital, saving and investment, and the sustainability of public and private transfer systems. This volume examines this complex topic

Over the next few decades population aging will begin developing in many countries and become much more challenging in high-income countries. Population aging has profound implications for the economy because of the economic life cycle, characterized by extended periods of, “dependency,” at...

What would a hypothetical one million US deaths in the Covid-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the population level? To put estimates of Covid-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality for an epidemic claiming for illustrative purposes one million US lives,...