Empirical Essays in the Economics of Aging
Empirical Essays in the Economics of Aging

Author: Elizabeth Anna Weber Handwerker

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780549168218

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In the first chapter, I study whether sending children to college affects the contemporaneous labor supply of their parents. I use data on the retirement behavior of parents and their children's college enrollments from the Health and Retirement Survey and show that parents do delay retirement when they are paying for their children to attend college. Mothers and fathers are more likely to be working, less likely to be collecting Social Security benefits, and less likely to report that they are retired if they are currently paying for the college education of a child. For those who continue working, I find little evidence of any impact on work intensity. For fathers, the pattern of effects is consistent with a model of precautionary savings.

Lifetime Allocation of Work and Income
Lifetime Allocation of Work and Income

Author: Juanita Morris Kreps

Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Economic analysis of patterns of employment, leisure and income, and their allocation through the lifespan according to age, with emphasis on retirement - includes a comparison of labour force activity, work life, hours of work and wages by age group in developed countries, and examines consumer expenditure and savings needs for retirement by occupational structure, and the incomes policy implications of financing old age benefits in the USA. References and statistical tables.