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Edited by David Wise. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 456. $65.00.
This volume represents the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research on the economics of the elderly population. The format of the book is familiar to all previous readers of an NBER text. Studies in the Economics of Aging is an edited collection of eleven papers presented at an NBER conference in the spring of 1992. Most of the authors represented here are noted specialists in the field and many received support through the National Institute on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for their research. Following the style of past NBER conference paper collections, a brief critical review by another researcher is provided for each article.
The book is divided into seven major sections. In the first, a paper by...