Research Catalog

Title

Demography of aging / Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston, editors ; Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Martin, Linda G., 1947-
• Preston, Samuel H.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.

Description

x, 411 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Older people
• Retirement
• Aged
• Health
• Demography
• Hygiene
• Older people > Health and hygiene

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Introduction / Samuel H. Preston and Linda G. Martin -- 2. The Formal Demography of Population Aging, Transfers, and the Economic Life Cycle / Ronald D. Lee -- 3. Retirement and Labor Force Behavior of the Elderly / Joseph F. Quinn and Richard V. Burkhauser -- 4. Income, Wealth, and Intergenerational Economic Relations of the Aged / Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Timothy M. Smeeding -- 5. The Elderly and Their Kin: Patterns of Availability and Access / Douglas A. Wolf -- 6. Care of the Elderly: Division of Labor Among the Family, Market, and State / Beth J. Soldo and Vicki A. Freedman -- 7. Medical Demography: Interaction of Disability Dynamics and Mortality / Kenneth G. Manton and Eric Stallard -- 8. Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality and Health Status / Samuel H. Preston and Paul Taubman -- 9. Geographic Concentration, Migration and Population Redistribution Among the Elderly / Frank D. Bean, George C. Myers, Jacqueline L. Angel and Omer R. Galle -- 10. Research on the Demography of Aging in Developing Countries / Linda G. Martin and Kevin Kinsella -- Appendix: Letter to Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging from the Committee on Population, March 2, 1993.

ISBN

0309050855

LCCN

94066697

OCLC

ocm30836148

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Columbia University Libraries