Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Three Models of Retirement Computational Complexity versus Predictive Validity 21
6. 2 Stocks, Bonds, and Pension Wealth 61
7. 3 Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements A Multiperiod-Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors 79
8. 4 The Provision of Time to the Elderly by Their Children 109
9. 5 Wealth Depletion and Life-Cycle Consumption by the Elderly 135
10. 6 Patterns of Aging in Thailand and CBte d’Ivoire 163
11. 7 Changing the Japanese Social Security System from Pay as You Go to Actuarially Fair 207
12. 8 Payment Source and Episodes of Institutionalization 249
13. 9 Incentive Regulation of Nursing Homes Specification Tests of the Markov Model 275
14. Contributors 305
15. Author Index 307
16. Subject Index 311