Frontiers in the Economics of Aging

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Preface
Introduction by David A. Wise
I. Personal Retirement Plans
1. Personal Retirement Saving Programs and Asset Accumulation: Reconciling the Evidence
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise
Comment: David Laibson
2. Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise
Comment: Sylvester J. Schieber
3. The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap
John B. Shoven and David A. Wise
Comment: Alan J. Auerbach
II. Health: Spending Patterns and Implications and Effect on Work
4. The Medical Costs of the Young and Old: A Forty-Year Perspective
David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara
Comment: David Meltzer
5. Diagnosis and Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life
Alan M. Garber, Thomas MaCurdy, and Mark McClellan
Comment: David M. Cutler
6. The Impact of Intrafamily Correlations on the Viability of Catastrophic Insurance
Matthew J. Eichner
Comment: Thomas J. Kane
7. Health Events, Health Insurance, and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
Mark McClellan
Comment: Michael D. Hurd
III. Methodological Innovations
8. Consumption and Savings Balances of the Elderly: Experimental Evidence on Survey Response Bias
Michael D. Hurd, Daniel McFadden, Harish Chand, Li Gan, Angela Merrill, and Michael Roberts
Comment: James P. Smith
9. Stochastic Forecasts for Social Security
Ronald Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar
Comment: Sylvester J. Schieber
IV. View of Inequality
10. Health, Income, and Inequality over the Life Cycle
Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson
Comment: David Meltzer
11. Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth
Kathleen McGarry and Andrew Davenport
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index