Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … is aligned with its actual consequence: retirement exerts a positive causal impact on health. …

We explore the effects of retirement on both physical and mental ill-health and whether these change in the presence of … relationship between retirement and health and a difference-in-differences approach combined with matching to investigate whether … the health effects of retirement are affected by the Great Recession. We estimate these models on data drawn from the …

This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset …

California Department of Education to estimate the rate at which individuals' trade off post-retirement health insurance benefits … terms of post-retirement health insurance is estimated. This estimate is then compared to the sensitivity of retirement to … retiree benefit programs. The results imply that individuals will delay retirement to become eligible for retiree health …

order to preserve consumption levels after retirement. We find that the median older household has current wealth of …Low saving rates raise questions about Americans' ability to maintain consumption levels in old age. Using the Health … and Retirement Study, this paper explores asset holdings among a nationally representative sample of people on the verge …

This paper explores the relationship between education and the evolution of wealth after retirement. Asset growth … following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset …

This report is designed to provide new evidence on retirement patterns in the UK, as part of the Pensions Review, a … financial security in retirement. Understanding patterns of retirement at older ages is key to understanding the challenges … longer in paid work. This report seeks to understand how patterns of employment and retirement have changed, both before and …

interrelationship between health and wealth and the age of retirement. The decision to retire depends on a number of factors including … sizeable responses to the age of retirement but does not affect health outcomes very much. A 20 percent reduction in wealth … features in a computational model of optimal wealth and retirement decisions, solving the model household-by-household using …

This paper uses the receipt of an inheritance to measure the effect of wealth shocks on retirement. Using the Health … and thus more likely to represent an exogenous shock to wealth … and Retirement Study (HRS), we first document that inheritance receipt is common among older workers - one in five …