Formal and Informal Support Systems for the Elderly in 50 Countries

描述（由申请人提供）：世界各地的人口正在老龄化，平均而言，老年人消费但收入很少的比例越来越大，差额由公共和私人转移以及资产收入弥补。经济后果会是什么？标准国民收入账户没有按年龄分列，提供的关于私人代际转移的信息非常有限。国民转移账户采用新方法，根据现有数据集建立按年龄划分的国民账户，包括公共和私人转移，并与标准国民账户保持一致。拟议的赠款将为目前参与国家技术援助项目的37个国家工作队建立一个网络，为方案执行机构和工作人员的核心活动、培训和全球会议提供资金。将有10至20个新的国家加入该网络并接受培训，使国家总数达到50至60个，并进一步增加背景的多样性和政策的变化，增加比较分析的力量。具体目标是：1.组织、培训和协助国家工作队的全球国家技术援助网络，根据现有数据来源（二次分析）估计和分析国民转移账户，并通过从新的国家招募工作队，增加背景多样性和数据点数量。2.从根本上丰富账户的科学内容，方法是估算：纵向NTA、财富账户、按社会经济地位分列的账户和性别/时间使用账户。3.促进和便利国家老龄化评估网络利用目标1和2产生的数据进行研究，以增进对总体代际关系模式和人口老龄化的宏观经济后果的认识和理解。4.在国家技术援助网络内部以及向非网络研究人员和决策者传播国家技术援助网络的数据和调查结果。这是一个多PI应用程序，由Dr. Lee和Mason担任PI。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Populations around the world are aging, and there are growing proportions of the elderly who consume but earn little, on average, with the difference made up by public and private transfers and by asset income. What will be the economic consequences? Standard national income accounts are not disaggregated by age and provide very limited information on private intergenerational transfers. National Transfer Accounts (NTA) uses new methods to construct age specific national accounts, including both public and private transfers, based on existing data sets, and is consistent with standard national accounts. The proposed grant will establish a network for the 37 country teams currently in the NTA project, funding the core activities of Pis and staff, training, and global meetings. Ten to twenty new countries will be brought into the network and trained, bringing the total number of countries to 50 to 60 and adding further contextual diversity and variation in policies, increasing the power of comparative analyses. The Specific Aims are to: 1. Organize, train and assist a global NTA Network of country teams to estimate and analyze National Transfer Accounts based on existing data sources (secondary analyses), and increase contextual diversity and number of data points by recruiting teams from new countries. 2. Fundamentally enrich the scientific content of the accounts by estimating: longitudinal NTA, wealth accounts, accounts disaggregated by socioeconomic status, and gender/time use accounts. 3. Promote and facilitate research by the NTA Network using the data generated in Aims 1 and 2 to improve knowledge and understanding of patterns in aggregate intergenerational relations and the macroeconomic consequences of population aging. 4. Disseminate the data and findings of the NTA Network both within the NTA Network and to non-Network researchers and to policy makers. This is a Multi-PI application, with Drs. Lee and Mason as the PIs.