consumption, from higher wages associated with population aging. Older, asset-rich households tend to lose, because of the …

Several recent theories emphasize the negative effects of an aging population on economic growth, either because of the … lower labor force participation and productivity of older workers or because aging will create an excess of savings over … anything, countries experiencing more rapid aging have grown more in recent decades. We suggest that this counterintuitive …

Population aging and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. First, demographic … reform shifts old-age provision towards more pre-funding. Third, while the patterns of population aging are similar in most …, population aging will induce capital flows between countries. All three effects influence the rate of return to capital and …

This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological … demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging many times may lower the demand for market care by increasing the supply … of family-provided care, which substitutes for market care. By providing healthy spouses, aging may increase the supply …