In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the futureand see older people’s labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that manyolder people already do—unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia,and...

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. How the future unfolds will depend...