"This is the thirteenth in a series of NBER volumes on the Economics of Aging"--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Family status transitions, latent health, and the post-retirement evolution of assets / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; Comment : David Laibson -- How does simplified disclosure affect individuals' mutual fund choices? / John Beshears ... [et al.] ; Comment : Steven F. Venti -- The risk of out-of-pocket health care expenditure at the end of life / Samuel Marshall, Kathleen McGarry, and Jonathan S. Skinner ; Comment : David R. Weir -- Cost growth in Medicare : 1992 to 2006 / Amitabh Chandra, Lindsay Sabik, and Jonathan S. Skinner -- The demand for Medicare part D prescription drug coverage : evidence from four waves of the retirement perspectives survey / Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter ; Comment : Amy Finkelstein -- DIfferential mortality by income and Social Security progressivity / Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov ; Comment : Michael D. Hurd -- Cognition and economic outcomes in the health and retirement survey / John J. McArdle, James P. Smith, and Robert Willis ; Comment : Finis Welch -- Aging, religion, and health / Angus Deaton ; Comment : James P. Smith -- Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the United States / Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest ; Comment : Angus Deaton -- Is decentralized iron fortification a feasible option to fight anemia among the poorest? / Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Rachel Glennerster ; Comment : Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams --Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high-priced funerals in South Africa / Anne Case and Alicia Menendez ; Comment: Esther Duflo.
Series:
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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