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Expenditures of Older Americans

Expenditures of Older Americans

Hardcover

Investing & FinanceMarketingAging & Elder Care

ISBN10: 0275958744
ISBN13: 9780275958749
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Nov 30 1997
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

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.

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