the project, we explore this phenomenon of working longer. We document trends in participation and employment and also … there is a link between older employment and youth unemployment and whether older individuals are healthy enough to work …

related to education - health, wealth, occupation, and employment - feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …Education is strongly related to participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program. To explore …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women - can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with …

ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This … mortality rate in the past or as much as their younger counterparts in similar health. Using both methods, we estimate that … there is significant additional capacity to work at older ages. We also explore whether there are differences in health …

whether higher employment among older persons might increase youth unemployment and finds no link between the two. The fifth … and sixth volumes focus on the disability insurance (DI) program, finding that changes in DI participation are more … closely linked to DI reforms than to changes in health and that reducing access to DI would raise labor supply …

We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and … individual's asset change between the first and last date of observation, that individual's education and health status when … first observed, and that individual's within-sample changes in health and family composition. We obtain estimates for HRS …

-term health and smoking behaviour. We explore the roles that cognitive and non-cognitive skills may play in moderating these … schooling system produced significant negative effects on long-term health and increased smoking behavior among a small fraction … transmission channel of the long-term impact on health outcomes …

We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on … observed age-health profiles. The model also allows for heterogeneity in individual health at a point in time and the …

, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms" was intended to set the stage for this current phase … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …