The growing gap in life expectancy: Using the future elderly model to estimate implications for social security and medicare

American Economic Review

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 230-233

  Goldman, Dana P ^a   Orszag, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITIGROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICARE; SOCIAL SECURITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901472517     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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