Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging

John Piggott is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), and of the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and also holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship. He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement. Alan Woodland is currently Scientia Professor of Economics and ARC Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Economics within the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Professor of Econometrics at the University of Sydney and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and the recipient of the Distinguished Economist Award of the Economics Society of Australia. He was previously a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economics Association.

• The Anatomy of Aging1. Demographics Globally and Through TimeDavid Bloom and Dara Lee Luca The Household Perspective2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement DecisionRichard Blundell and Eric French 3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age SecurityAlessandro Cigno4. Consumption and SavingOrazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti 5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive DeclineMichael Keane and Susan Thorp 6. Investment and Portfolio AllocationRaimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke Economic Impacts of Population Aging7. Macroeconomics, Aging and GrowthRonald Lee8. Insurance Markets for the ElderlyHanming Fang9. Economic Aspects of Occupational PensionsOlivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott 10. The Political Economy of Population AgingGeorges Casamatta and Loïc Batté 11. Migration and Demographic ShiftKlaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva 12. Longevity and Morbidity ProjectionsMichael Sherris13. Intergenerational Risk SharingRoel Beetsma and Ward Romp Public Policy with an Aging Population14. TaxationAlan Woodland and John Piggott 15. Aging and PovertyTimothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand 16. Social Security and Public InsuranceAxel Borsch-Supan17. Health and Long Term CareEdward Norton18. Population Aging Data Sets and their AnalysisJames P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu