Health, education, and retirement over the prolonged life cycle: a selective survey of recent research

Explaining Disability Trends in the United States, 1963–2015

“…Since the 1980s, there has been a heated debate among demographers and epidemiologists about the relationship between life expectancy and morbidity. Central to the debate is the question of whether the years gained are mostly disease-free (Kuhn et al 2014). There are three different views on the issue: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium (Cai and Lubitz 2007;Crimmins et al 2016).…”

“…Central to the debate is the question of whether the years gained are mostly disease‐free (Kuhn et al. ). There are three different views on the issue: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium (Cai and Lubitz ; Crimmins et al.…”

Editorial on the special issue “Geographies of Demographic Change: Theories and Narratives”

“…In economics, the academic debate predominantly focuses on theories of economic growth and specifi c economic sectors in which demography infl uences economic outcomes (or vice versa), for instance, educational and health systems, or the age-retirement provisions of economies (Börsch-Supan et al 2015;Kuhn et al 2014). The economic debate has converged around two different topics: population growth in terms of over-population and its economic consequences in developing nations in a Malthusian tradition (Birdsall et al 2001;Bloom et al 2003) versus population decline or ageing and migration, and how it affects the competitiveness of industrialised economies (Kelley/Schmidt 2005;Oliveira Martins et al 2005;Poot 2008).…”

“…While the fi rst issue received more attention in the past, the latter stream of research has gained popularity in recent years (Bloom et al 2010). From an eco-nomic perspective, demographic change is modelled as an exogenous factor that affects the demand of private households and labour markets (Franz 2004;Lührmann 2005) and implies changes in private markets as well as in the provision of public goods and services (general welfare, health and education), as highlighted by Börsch-Supan et al (2015), Kuhn et al (2014), Bengtsson/Scott (2011), Meier/Werding (2010) or Misoulis (2008). Other contributions discuss its long-term impact on human capital and skills (Poot 2008;see, also, Green 2003;Brown/Danson 2003).…”

Role of Private Long-Term Care Insurance in Financial Sustainability for an Aging Society

“…According to life-cycle models [11,12], this deficit resulting from early and old age is financed in three ways: public transfers (pensions and/or other social benefits); private transfers (such as parents paying for their children education), and a redistribution based on assets (savings made at an active age to be spent further on). Regarding LTC for the elderly, changes in family structure make informal care of elders impossible [3,13] and in-kind transfers difficult.…”