paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick … those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this …

effects of demography, health, and disability insurance / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Comment / Robert J. Willis -- Labor market … and Jonathan Skinner -- Economic circumstances and health -- Aging and death under a dollar a day / Abhijit V. Banerjee … health and circumstance on health in old age / Anne Case -- Comment / James P. Smith -- Income, aging, health and well …

broadly neutral with regard to work incentives. Exploiting variation in pension wealth and work incentives across different …

Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective …

beneficiaries alter their household structure. Prime working age women depart, and we observe an increase in children under 5 and … have comparative advantage in work away from extended family relative to younger women. The additional income from old age …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The … "demonstration effect" postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior … provide weaker incentives for spousal care than joint children. Using data from the HRS, we find evidence that spouses provide …