Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers: Introducing Age into National Accounts

Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, An-Chi Tung, Mun-Sim Lai, Tim Miller

NBER Working Paper No. 12770
Issued in December 2006

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Developing the National Transfer Account System is a collaborative international effort supported by NIA, R01-AG025488 and NIA, R37-AG025247. The lead institutions are the Population and Health Studies Program, East-West Center and the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California at Berkeley. Collaborating institutions are the Nihon University Population Research Institute; the Statistics Bureau of Japan; Acadmia Sinica (Taipei); Lembaga Demografi, University of Indonesia; CEDEPLAR (Brazil) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Thanks to Alan Auerbach and other participants in the 2d Meeting of the Working Group on Macroeconomic Aspects of Intergenerational Transfers, January 2005, University of California at Berkeley. Research assistance was provided by Comfort Sumida and Avi Ebenstein. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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