Ashenfelter, Orley; Card, David E. - 2001
retirement. Retirement rates at institutions that enforced mandatory retirement exhibited sharp "spikes" at ages 70 and 71. About …A special exemption from the 1986 Age Discrimination Act allowed colleges and universities to enforce mandatory … retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a large sample of institutions before and after …