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Zusatztext All of the essays in this book are informative! they hang together well! and the editors' introduction provides a valuable synthesis Informationen zum Autor Andrew Mason is Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Program on Population at the East-West Center. He has served on advisory committees and as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the US National Academy of Sciences, the US Agency for International Development, and the United Nations.Georges Tapinos is Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and a former General Secretary of IUSSP. Klappentext This book is a collection of papers by leading scholars whose research concerns economic transfers between generations. The issues addressed have great relevance to demographic issues, particularly the determination of fertility, to economic issues, including equity and growth, and to public policy, especially social security reform. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of papers by scholars whose research concerns economic transfers between generations, focusing on intergenerational features of the macroeconomy, the role of the state as a provider of economic security for the elderly and the intergenerational behaviour of the family. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Andrew Mason and George Tapinos: Introduction Part I: Intergenerational Accounting 2: Ronald D. Lee: Intergenerational Transfers and the Economic Life Cycle: A Cross-cultural Perspective 3: Andrew Mason and Tim Miller: Dynasties, Intergenerational Transfers, and Life-cycle Income: A Case Study of Taiwan 4: Jagadeesh Gokhale: Demographic Change, Generational Accounts, and National Saving in the United States Part II: Government-funded Pension Programmes 5: Jorge Bravo: On the Rate of Return of Unfunded Pension Systems 6: Rafael P. Rofman: Moving Social Security towards Fully Funded Schemes: Who Pays the Cost? 7: Salvador Valdés-Prieto: The Political Economy of Two Chilean Pension Systems 8: Didier Blanchet and Jean-Alain Montford: Pensions and Generational Histories in a Simple Demo-economic Model: The Case of France 9: Shripad Tuljapurkar and Ronald D. Lee: Demographic Uncertainty and the OASDI Trust Funds of the United States Part III: The Family and Intergenerational Transfers 10: Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig: Financial Intermediation, Transfers, and Commitment: Do Banks Crowd Out Private Insurance Arrangements in Low-Income Rural Areas 11: Alessandro Cigno: Self-enforcing Family Constitutions: Implications for Saving, Fertility, and Social Security 12: Sumon Kumar Bhaumik and Jeffrey B. Nugent: Wealth Accumulation, Fertility, and Transfers to Elderly Household Heads in Peru 13: Yean-Ju Lee: Support between Rural Parents and Migrant Children in a Rapidly Industrializing Society: South Korea 14: Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff: The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children 15: Anne Laferrère: Housing Inheritance: An Empirical Analysis of French Data ...
