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Overview
The essays in this volume discuss such timely topics as demographic change and the outlook for Social Security and Medicare in the United States; long term decision making under uncertainty; the effect of changing family structure on government spending; how the structure of public retirement policies has encouraged early retirement in some countries and not others; the response of local community spending to demographic change; and related topics.Contributors include many of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers.
Contributors:
Ronald Lee, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Daniel McFadden, James Smith, Alan J. Auerbach, Kevin Hassett, Peter Diamond, Thomas MaCurdy, Thomas Nechyba, Hilary Hoynes, Robert Willis, Jonathan Gruber, David Wise, Axel Borsh-Supan, Massimo Livi Bacci, Bernd Raffelhiischen, David Weil, David Weir, David M. Cutler, Louise Sheiner, Victor Fuchs, Steven Caldwell, Alla Gantman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Thomas Johnson, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Nada Eissa, Robert A. Moffitt, David Card, S. Philip Morgan