
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging
Description
Key Features
- Dissolves the barriers between policymakers and scholars by presenting comprehensive portraits of social and theoretical issues
- Synthesizes valuable data on the topic from a variety of journals dating back to the late 1970s in a convenient, comprehensive resource
- Presents diverse perspectives on subjects that can be closely associated with national and regional concerns
- Offers comprehensive, critical reviews and expositions of the essential aspects of the economics of population aging
Readership
Graduate students and professors worldwide working in all subdisciplines of economics and finance. Secondary audience will include those working in gerontology, population studies, demography, governmental policy, sociology, and related fields.
Table of Contents
The Anatomy of Aging
1. Demographics Globally and Through Time
David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca
The Household Perspective
2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision
Richard Blundell and Eric French
3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security
Alessandro Cigno
4. Consumption and Saving
Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti
5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline
Michael Keane and Susan Thorp
6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke
Economic Impacts of Population Aging
7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth
Ronald Lee
8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly
Hanming Fang
9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions
Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott
10. The Political Economy of Population Aging
Georges Casamatta and Loïc Batté
11. Migration and Demographic Shift
Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva
12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections
Michael Sherris
13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing
Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp
Public Policy with an Aging Population
14. Taxation
Alan Woodland and John Piggott
15. Aging and Poverty
Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand
16. Social Security and Public Insurance
Axel Borsch-Supan
17. Health and Long Term Care
Edward Norton
18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis
James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu
Product details
- No. of pages: 1146
- Language: English
- Copyright: © North Holland 2016
- Published: November 21, 2016
- Imprint: North Holland
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444634054
- eBook ISBN: 9780444634047
About the Editors
John Piggott
Affiliations and Expertise
Alan Woodland
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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ReinhardNeck Sun Oct 28 2018
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging
Gives an excellent overview of the main issues in this area which should be read by everybody doing research in demography and Pension economics.