NBER Center for Aging and Health Research

描述（申请者提供）：美国国家经济研究局老龄与健康研究中心。本申请提议延续NBER老龄化与健康研究中心至2014年6月。中心有两个主要功能：一是作为国家经济研究局广泛的老龄化研究和相关活动网络的整合伞；二是作为组织机制和激励机制，开发新的和创新的老龄化研究方向。该中心在促进经济学家在老龄化问题上的广泛研究活动议程，通过NBER服务和协调从事老龄化相关研究的大型经济学者社区，以及推动“老龄化经济学”作为经济学探索的重要分支领域方面发挥着重要作用。行政和研究支持核心为中心提供行政和协调服务，集中数据管理，并为整个NBER老龄化研究项目提供学术领导。项目开发核心支持对新的和创新的项目理念进行小规模的探索性研究。外部创新网络核心促进和支持合作研究小组处理更复杂的研究问题，并涉及国内和跨国研究合作。外部研究资源支持和传播核心提供重要研究成果的广泛交流，包括准备大量关于中心研究的非技术报告，这些核心是利用，促进和加强NBER在老龄化和健康方面的大型和多样化研究活动的巨大资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NBER Center for Aging and Health Research. This application proposes a continuation of the NBER Center for Aging and Health Research through June 2014. The Center serves two primary functions: first, as the integrating umbrella for an extensive network of research and related activities in aging at the NBER, and second, as the organizational mechanism and stimulus for developing new and innovative research directions in aging. The Center is instrumental in promoting an extensive agenda of research activity by economists on issues in aging, in serving and coordinating a large community of economic scholars engaged in aging-related research through the NBER, and in advancing the "economics of aging" as an important subfield of economics exploration. The Administrative and Research Support Core provides administrative and coordinating services to the Center, centralized data management, and academic leadership for the overall NBER research program in aging. The Program Development Core supports smaller-scale exploratory research on new and innovative project ideas. The External Innovative Network Core promotes and supports collaborative research groups dealing with more complex research issues, and involves both domestic and multi-national research collaborations. The External Research Resources Support and Dissemination Core provides for the broad communication of important research findings, including the preparation of numerous non-technical reports on Center research Together, these cores are a tremendous resource in leveraging, promoting and enhancing the NBER's large and diverse research activities in aging and health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The financial circumstances of older Americans, work and retirement behavior, health and functional ability, and the many public and private policies that influence individual wellbeing all are in a state of continuing evolution and transition. Understanding the complexities of this situation and the relationships between demographics, policy, behavior, economics, and health is the substantive aim of the Center.