Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less schooling are more likely to receive DI. The gradient of DI …There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these … participation across health quintiles is almost twice as steep as for schooling - moving from having no high school diploma to …

would expect that wealth accumulated before retirement would be used to augment consumption in later life, with the … implication that wealth should decline over time. The risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenditures is negligible in Denmark … explanations are not plausible for Denmark (and therefore also questionable for the U.S.). Our analysis instead attempts to explain …

-based eligibility age implemented by reform that Denmark launched in 2006. Absent treatment, younger workers not only have biased …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement … is seen to differ, sometimes substantially, with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed …. Moreover, these differences vary with the wave of the survey as respondents age. Retirement is comprised of a complex set of …

National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (NLS-MW) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). These calculations provide …

endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …in this paper we specify and estimate a structural limited dependent variable model with which we study both the health … and retirement status of the elderly. Standard linear estimators, which assume that these variable sare continuous, are …

econometric frameworks: potential outcomes and dynamic programming. It finds large effect heterogeneity of health on work in two … surveys of older workers, the VRI and the HRS. It shows how reduced-form estimates of health on work are biased when there is … of work given health …

composition for people in their pre and post-retirement years …

While numerous studies have examined how health affects retirement behavior, few have analyzed the impact of retirement … on subsequent health outcomes. This study estimates the effects of retirement on health status as measured by indicators … waves of the Health and Retirement Study, spanning 1992 through 2005. To account for biases due to unobserved selection and …