Discoveries in the economics of aging.

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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, is now available from the University of Chicago Press.

The oldest members of the baby boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging of the baby boomers is just one part of the rapidly changing landscape of aging in the United States and around the world.

The latest volume in the NBER's Economics of Aging series, Discoveries in the Economics of Aging assembles a number of the most recent and insightful studies in this expanding field of study. One substantive focus of the volume is the well-documented relationship between health and...