Although population aging requires that employees increasingly work beyond traditional retirement ages, negative age stereotypes often portray older workers as unwilling or unable to work longer. However, recent lifespan developmental research suggests that there are significant individual...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Economic Status of the Aged -- Chapter 2 To Work or Not to Work -- Chapter 3 Retirement Planning -- Chapter 4 Social Security: Old Age and Survivors' Benefits -- Chapter 5 Social Security Financing: Who Pays? Who Should Pay? -- Chapter 6 Health,...

This book investigates several important issues in the economics of aging, including the accumulation of wealth and the relationship between health and financial prosperity.Examining the changes in savings behavior and investment priorities in the United States over the past few decades,...

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...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / David A. Wise and Richard Woodbury -- 1. Trends in Pension Cash-Out at Job Change and the Effects on Long-Term Outcomes / Philip Armour, Michael D. Hurd, and Susann Rohwedder -- Comment: James M. Poterba -- 2. Liquidity in Retirement Savings...

Analyses in the Economics of Aging 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...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction - David A. Wise and Richard Woodbury -- I. Financing Retirement -- 1. Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts - James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise -- 2. Economic Preparation...

Analysis of population aging is typically framed in terms of chronological age. However, chronological age itself is not necessarily deeply informative about the aging process. This paper reviews literature and conducts empirical analyses aimed at investigating whether chronological age is a...

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...