Live Long and Prosper? The Economics of Ageing Populations
Contents
1) The what, so what, and now what of population ageing
David E. Bloom
Part I: Implications of Population Ageing: The 'So What'
2) Who will care for all the old people?
Finn Kydland and Nick Pretnar
3) Employment and the health burden on informal caregivers of the elderly
Jan M. Bauer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza
4) Ageing in global perspective
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
5) What do older workers want?
Nicole Maestas and Michael Jetsupphasuk
6) The flip side of "live long and prosper": Noncommunicable diseases in the OECD and their macroeconomic impact
David E. Bloom, Simiao Chen, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner
7) Macroeconomic effects of ageing and healthcare policy in the United States
Juan Carlos Conesa, Timothy J. Kehoe, Vegard M. Nygaard and Gajendran Raveendranathan
8) Global demographic changes and international capital flows
Weifeng Liu and Warwick J. McKibbin
9) Ageing into risk aversion? Implications of population ageing for the willingness to take risks
Margaret A. McConnell and Uwe Sunde
10) Life cycle origins of pre-retirement financial status: Insights from birth cohort data
Mark McGovern
11) A longevity dividend versus an ageing society
Andrew Scott
Part II: Solutions and Policies: The 'Now What'
12) Understanding 'value for money' in healthy ageing
Karen Eggleston
13) Healthy population ageing depends on investment in early childhood learning and development
Elizabeth Geelhoed, Phoebe George, Kim Clark and Kenneth Strahan
14) Financing health services for the Indian elderly: Aayushman Bharat and beyond
Ajay Mahal and Sanjay K. Mohanty
15) Cutting Medicare beneficiaries in on savings from managed healthcare in Medicare
Thomas G. McGuire
16) Macroeconomics and policies in ageing societies
Andrew Mason, Sang-Hyop Lee, Ronald Lee and Gretchen Donehower
17) Population ageing and tax system efficiency
John Laitner and Dan Silverman
18) Means-tested public pensions: Designs and impact for an ageing demographic
George Kudrna and John Piggott
19) Pension reform in Europe
Axel Börsch-Supan
20) Happiness at old ages: How to promote health and reduce the societal costs of ageing
Maddalena Ferranna
