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Objectives: Economics of aging studies the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they age as well as the implications of population aging. We will study labor force participation and retirement, saving and dissaving at older ages, biological processes of cognition, health care for older people, including long-term care and living arrangements, and the impact of population aging on the macroeconomy. The goal of this short course is to improve your understanding of the factors that determine the wellbeing of the elderly, and the consequences that follow from an increasingly older population. In addressing these questions, we will introduce tools and methods that we hope are broadly applicable in other fields of economics and other social sciences.
Assignment: We will provide access to data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the European SHARE data to test several hypotheses related to the economics of aging. In groups, you will analyze this data during the afternoon sessions and prepare a short presentation summarizing your findings. Presentations will be delivered on Friday morning.