Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy

by Alan J. Auerbach (Editor), Ronald D. Lee (Editor)

The essays in this volume discuss such timely 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.

466 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 2001