How demographers can help legislators.
Demographic change bears directly on the formulation of social policy because it determines in large part whose wealth or income is redistributed to whom. Where demographic events modify the recipients and donors in such redistribution, they may sharply alter the consequences of existing legislation or create constituencies for new laws. This article considers how current and emerging demographic changes are affecting the redistribution of wealth across generations, across income groups, and across geographic regions.
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