In the late 1980s, David Aschauer (1989) triggered a long overdue dialogue among economists
and political leaders when he published a study arguing that much of the decline in US …

Bridge collapses and water main explosions focus national attention on the crumbling condition
of the nations infrastructure. Catastrophic infrastructure failures are always a momentary …

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act was enacted to monitor minority and low-income access
to the mortgage market. The data collected for this purpose show that minorities are more …

The decline in United States productivity has been widely identified as one of the major
economic problems facing the nation. This concern is understandable; productivity growth is the …

Daily headlines warn American workers that their retirement years may be far from golden.
The main components of the retirement income system—Social Security and employer-…

As the baby boom begins to withdraw from the labor force, ensuring a secure retirement income
becomes an increasingly important issue, the number of people over age 65 is expected …

The US retirement income system is often described as a" three-legged stool," consisting of
Social Security, employerprovided supplementary pensions, and individual savings. In fact, …

A nation can use its current output to provide for the future in numerous ways: it can
undertake private capital investment, add to the stock of public capital, enhance income-producing …

This paper examines the impact of private pension coverage on the saving behavior of men
in their preretirement years. The empirical work is based on the Ando-Modigliani model …

After nearly a century of decline, work activity among older people began to increase in the
1980s in response to a variety of factors. The question is whether the impacts of those factors …