This chapter surveys the literature on the macroeconomic effects of government debt. It begins by discussing the data on debt and deficits, including the historical time series …
This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people's own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia …
The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …
W HY DO PEOPLE save? J. Maynard Keynes (1936) lists eight motives which we reproduce here with one addi-tion: 1 1." To build up a reserve against unforeseen contingencies"(the …
This chapter reviews the concepts, methods, and results of studies that analyze the incidence of taxes. The purpose of such studies is to determine how the burden of a …
This paper illustrates the technique of generational accounting, a new way to evaluate fiscal policy that overcomes the inherent ambiguities of traditional deficit accounting. The authors …
National Academies of Sciences… - 2015 - books.google.com
The US population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, from 45 million to 86 million. One …
RD Lee - Demography of aging, 1994 - books.google.com
The human life-cycle has two stages of dependency—childhood and old age—separated by a long stage of surplus production. Dependent age groups are sustained by flows of …
Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot …