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Themes in the Economics of Aging
David A. Wise, editor
The University of Chicago Press, 2001
Cloth: $75.00
ISBN: 0-226-90284-6
Table of Contents:
Introduction
David A. Wise
I. Personal Retirement Plans
1. Preretirement Cashouts and Foregone Retirement Saving: Implications for 401(k) Asset Accumulation
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise
2. The Personal Security Account 2000 Plan, Market Outcomes, and Risk
Sylvester J. Schieber and John B. Shoven
3. Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests
Jeffrey R. Brown
II. Wealth and Health
4. Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts
Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson
5. Predictors of Mortality among the Elderly
Michael D. Hurd, Daniel McFadden and Angela Merrill
III. Health Care
6. Trends in Medicare Spending Near the End of Life
Jeffrey Geppert and Mark McClellan
7. The Concentration of Medical Spending: An Update
David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara
Comment: Joseph P. Newhouse
8. The Sources of Cost Difference in Health Insurance Plans: A Decomposition Analysis
Matthew Eichner, Mark McClellan and David A. Wise
Comment: Joseph P. Newhouse
IV. Social Security Provisions and Retirement
9. Incentive Effects of Social Security under an Uncertain Disability Option
Axel Börsch-Supan
10. Social Security Incentives for Retirement
Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber
Comment: Andrew A. Samwick
V. Bequests and Dissaving
11. Anticipated and Actual Bequests
Michael D. Hurd and James P. Smith