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- ISBN 9780275958749
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Aging in America imposes dramatic personal, social, and economic changes. Retirees have substantial power to affect both business and public policy decision making. This book analyzes the expenditure patterns of older households to characterize their comparative lifestyles and quality of life. Expenditure patterns of various elderly households are examined over time and compared with the non-elderly. Particular emphasis is placed on analysis of necessity and health care expenditures.
The authors empirically test the dominant theories of consumer life-cycle behavior. They conclude that these theories do not provide a consistent explanation for the expenditures of heterogeneous age and income groups and that alternate theories—the precautionary theory of elderly savings or the theory of positional goods—have credence.
ROSE M. RUBIN is Professor of Economics at the University of Memphis. She is coauthor of Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families (Praeger, 1994).
MICHAEL L. NIESWIADOMY is Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas.
