Demographic change and fiscal policy
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Demographic change and fiscal policy
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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As public expenditures on health, education and transfer programmes increase, demographic change has a growing impact on public expenditures, and the incentives for behaviour created by public transfer programs increase as well. The essays in this volume discuss such 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Population forecasting for fiscal planning: issues and innovations Ronald Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar
- Comment Daniel McFadden
- Comment James Smith
- 3. Uncertainty and the design of long-run fiscal policy Alan J. Auerbach and Kevin Hassett
- Comment Peter Diamond
- Comment Shripad Tuljapurkar
- 4. How does a community's demographic composition alter its fiscal burdens? Thomas MaCurdy and Thomas Nechyba
- Comment Hilary Hoynes
- Comment Robert Willis
- 5. Social security, retirement incentives, and retirement behavior: an international perspective Jonathan Gruber and David Wise
- Comment Axel Borsh-Supan
- Comment Massimo Livi Bacci
- 6. Aging, fiscal policy and social insurances: a European perspective Bernd Raffelhuschen
- Comment David Weil
- Comment David Weir
- 7. Demographics and medical care spending: standard and non-standard effects David M. Cutler and Louise Sheiner
- Comment Victor Fuchs
- 8. Projecting Social Security's finances and its treatment of postwar Americans Steven Caldwell, Alla Gantman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Thomas Johnson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
- Comment Nada Eissa
- 9. Demographic change and public assistance expenditures Robert A. Moffitt
- Comment David Card
- Comment S. Philip Morgan.
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