{"product_id":"wealth-work-and-health-james-patrick-smith-9780472110261","title":"Wealth, Work, and Health: Innovations in Measurement in the Social Sciences","description":"\u003ci\u003eWealth, Work, and Health\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its inspiration the illustrious career of F. Thomas Juster, former Director of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Juster devoted forty years to the question of how to measure behavior by asking people questions about the objective and subjective circumstances of their lives. During those same years, his innovative work in retirement decisions, allocation of time, and distribution of wealth influenced a new generation of scholars in the social sciences.\u003cbr\u003eChapters in the volume address advances in measurement as well as disciplinary attitudes toward various forms of measurement--for example, the resistance of economics to qualitative measurements. Specific topics include measurement of expenditures and wealth; lifetime earnings, saving choices, and wealth at retirement; inheritances and bequests; impact of education and heart attack on smoking cessation among older adults; and intergenerational transfers. Crossing many disciplinary lines, this rich volume should be of interest to economists--especially those interested in health--sociologists, and demographers. \u003cbr\u003eContributors are Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Dominitz, Debra Dwyer, Alan L. Gustman, John C. Henretta, A. Regula Herzog, Daniel Hill, Michael D. Hurd, N. Anders Klevmarken, Maarten Lindeboom, Charles Manski, Olivia S. Mitchell, Sara Nichols, Andrew A. Samwick, James P. Smith, Beth J. Soldo, Frank P. Stafford, Thomas L. Steinmeier, Jules Theeuwes, Stephen F. Venti, Robert B. Wallace, Robert J. Willis, David A. Wise, Isolde Woittiez, Douglas A. Wolf, Edward N. Wolff, and Linda A. Wray.\u003cbr\u003eJames P. Smith is Senior Economist, RAND. Robert J. Willis is Professor of Economics and Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Patrick Smith,Robert James Willis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472110268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472110261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.31w x 1.26d","brand":"James Patrick Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48998562005247,"sku":"9780472110261","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wealth-work-and-health-james-patrick-smith-9780472110261","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}