Inquiries in the Economics of Aging

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Preface
Introduction by David A. Wise
I. Health Insurance and the Cost of Health Care
1. Insurance or Self-Insurance? Variation, Persistence, and Individual Health Accounts
Matthew J. Eichner, Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise
Comment: Jonathan Gruber
2. What Is Technological Change?
David M. Cutler and Mark B. McClellan
Comment: Jonathan Gruber
II. Retirement and Care of the Elderly
3. Lump-Sum Distributions from Retirement Saving Plans: Receipt and Utilization
James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise
Comment: James B. Shoven
4. Does Medicare Eligibility Affect Retirement?
Brigitte C. Madrian and Nancy Dean Beaulieu
Comment: James H. Stock
5. Caring for the Elderly: The Role of Adult Children
Kathleen McGarry
Comment: James P. Smith
III. Measurement, Methodological, and Data Issues
6. Measuring Poverty among the Elderly
Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson
Comment: B. Douglas Bernheim
7. The Covariance Structure of Mortality Rates in Hospitals
Douglas Staiger 
Comment: David Meltzer
8. Household Wealth and the Elderly under Alternative Imputation Procedures
Hilary Hoynes, Michael Hurd, and Harish Chand
Comment: James P. Smith
9. Subjective Survival Curves and Life Cycle Behavior
Michael Hurd, Daniel McFadden, and Li Gan
Comment: Axel Börsch-Supan
10. Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber, and Thomas E. MaCurdy
Comment: Angus Deaton
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index