Books by Fred C. Pampel

One measure of public program response to rapidly expanding older populations is the approach to old-age pensions under social insurance, social assistance, and provident fund systems.

In this work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in 18 high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures.

Fred C. Pampel describes how age combines with other components of inequality by comparing the influence of group membership on social inequality before and after the life course transition to old age. He looks at the differences in public policy and how age inequality -- more than the other sources of inequality -- relates closely to government policies and studies other societies in which both age group differences and overall inequality differ from those in the United States. Pampel makes a comparison of the United States with other nations a central component of the book, providing greater understanding of the larger forces that shape old age.

In the last 35 years, declining deaths from heart disease have translated into 13 million lives saved and extended.