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

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1A, provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance and healthcare costs. This text explores the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance, health care costs, the interests of policymakers, and the role of academics. As the first of two volumes, users will find it a great resource on the topics associated with the economics of aging.

Together with its companion, volume 1B, this work includes literature that has appeared in general economics journals, in various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues, information from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and data presented in papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others.

• Provides the latest economics literature on aging and its associated subjects, including the aspects of social insurance and healthcare costs
• Includes valuable data from a variety of general economics journals and interdisciplinary social and life science publications
• Critical text for policymakers and academics that describes and analyzes valuable information since the inception of the study of the science of population aging in the late 1970s