This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals. …

is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the ‘Health and Retirement Nexus’ requires an …This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning … typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. This results from …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multidimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …’ participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

, to stay in the workforce longer when having elderly dependents in the household, and to postpone retirement …

retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more than … half of women appear to be making standard retirement plans. At the same time, more than one in five individuals seem to … have delayed their retirement planning and approximately one in ten either do not know when they expect to retire or expect …