This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the ¯rst three waves of … the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, non-parametric matching methods can be … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress, increased sleep … duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. Moreover, the …

, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal … data sets from Britain and Germany to estimate hazard models of the effect of health on early retirement. The hazard models … show that health is a key determinant of the retirement hazard for both men and women in Britain and Germany. The size of …

British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively … results provide evidence that, for women, the health status of their partner impacts on their retirement decisions; and effect … health limitations and a measure of latent health status obtained from a generalized ordered probit model. Further, our …

economic capacity. Maestas (2010) finds 26% of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample respondent's `unretire'. We estimate an … unretirement rate of 5.11% and 2.70% for women using The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Earlier studies using US …

economic capacity. Maestas (2010) finds 26% of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample respondent’s ‘unretire’. We … estimate unretirement rates between 5.5 and 9.2 percent using The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Earlier studies …. Results suggest: age, education, financial planning, unanticipated increases in debt, spouse and duration in retirement play …

This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver’s health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no significant effects … left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …

marginal value of leisure and wealth. We apply our framework to explain the increasing prevalence of non standard retirement …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …