How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … potential influence of health on employment choices, we show that retirement improves physical and social health. The more … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and …

Using data for Bangladesh we find evidence of added worker effects resulting from father's health problems on both … required (when there are "health shocks") children's participation tends to increase. Our results suggest that income …

on the causes of child labor force participation by showing that parents' health affects child labor through family labor … supply decisions. Using a survey with detailed information on health matters for Bangladesh, we find that child labor supply … is sometimes takes the form of an added worker effect in reaction to certain types of health shock. …

for a job. This is because of the short time-horizon of workers close to retirement. We propose to introduce a pension tax … pension tax allows those workers near retirement who still do not exercise job search to smooth their consumption during their …

-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement implies that the budgetary return and search incentives associated with the …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment … and retirement is welfare-improving thanks to the pension tax …

the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissez-faire with egalitarian social optima … retirement age, unlike the ex ante egalitarian optimum. This result is robust to the introduction of unequal life expectancies … and unequal productivities. Hence, the postponement of the retirement age can, quite surprisingly, be defended on …

work relative to retirement. We here use two European panel datasets to first show that psychological well-being (measured …

adults work some fraction of the old-age, whatever the retirement age is fixed or chosen by the agents. …

We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …

-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement implies that the budgetary return and search incentives associated with the …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment … and retirement is welfare-improving thanks to the pension tax …