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Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s, including information from general economics journals, from various field journals in economics, especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor markets and human resource issues, from interdisciplinary social science and life science journals, and from papers by economists published in journals associated with gerontology, history, sociology, political science, and demography, amongst others. Content: CopyrightPage iv Introduction to the SeriesPage v ContributorsPages xiii-xv Editors' IntroductionPages xvii-xxJohn Piggott, Alan Woodland AcknowledgmentsPage xxi Chapter 1 - The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, FuturePages 3-56D.E. Bloom, D.L. Luca Chapter 2 - Macroeconomics, Aging, and GrowthPages 59-118R. Lee Chapter 3 - Migration and the Demographic ShiftPages 119-177A. Zaiceva, K.F. Zimmermann Chapter 4 - Global Demographic Trends: Consumption, Saving, and International Capital FlowsPages 179-235O. Attanasio, A. Bonfatti, S. Kitao, G. Weber Chapter 5 - Insurance Markets for the ElderlyPages 237-309H. Fang Chapter 6 - Intergenerational Risk SharingPages 311-380R. Beetsma, W. Romp Chapter 7 - The Political Economy of Population AgingPages 381-444G. Casamatta, L. Batté Chapter 8 - Retirement Incentives and Labor SupplyPages 457-566R. Blundell, E. French, G. Tetlow Chapter 9 - Investing and Portfolio Allocation for RetirementPages 567-608B. Kaschützke, R. Maurer Chapter 10 - Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age SecurityPages 609-660A. Cigno Chapter 11 - Complex Decision Making: The Roles of Cognitive Limitations, Cognitive Decline, and AgingPages 661-709M.P. Keane, S. Thorp Chapter 12 - Taxation, Pensions, and Demographic ChangePages 713-780A. Woodland Chapter 13 - Social Security and Public InsurancePages 781-863A. Börsch-Supan, K. Härtl, D.N. Leite Chapter 14 - Workplace-Linked Pensions for an Aging DemographicPages 865-904O.S. Mitchell, J. Piggott Chapter 15 - Poverty and AgingPages 905-950J. Marchand, T. Smeeding Chapter 16 - Health and Long-Term CarePages 951-989E.C. Norton Chapter 17 - The HRS Around the World SurveysPages 993-1018L.I. Dobrescu, J.P. Smith IndexPages I-1-I-22