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Aging, Health, and Public Policy:
Demographic and Economic Perspectives

Edited by Linda J. Waite

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments (PDF)

Introduction

The Demographic Faces of the Elderly (PDF)
Linda J. Waite 

I. History, Biology, and Disease

Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century: Findings and Procedures of the Early Indicators Project (PDF)
Robert William Fogel

The Biodemography of Aging (PDF)
James W. Vaupel

From Alzheimer's Disease to a Demography of Chronic Disease: The Development of Demographic Synthesis for Fitting Multistate Models (PDF)
Douglas Ewbank

II. Health and Socioeconomic Status

Integrating Biology into the Study of Health Disparities (PDF)
Eileen M. Crimmins, Teresa E. Seeman

Unraveling the SES–Health Connection (PDF)
James P. Smith

Socioeconomic Status and Coronary Heart Disease: A Psychobiological Perspective (PDF)
Andrew Steptoe, Michael Marmot

III. Aging, Work, and Public Policy

Quantifying Our Ignorance: Stochastic Forecasts of Population and Public Budgets (PDF)
Ronald Lee

Social Security Provisions and the Labor Force Participation of Older Workers (PDF)
David A. Wise

IV. Data and Statistics

Survey Design and Methodology in the Health and Retirement Study and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (PDF)
Robert M. Hauser, Robert J. Willis

Epilogue

Research on Population Aging at NIA: Retrospect and Prospect (PDF)
Richard Suzman

Authors (PDF)

Entire supplement (PDF)

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