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 …

We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …

and Retirement Study, this paper explores asset holdings among a nationally representative sample of people on the verge … of retirement. Making reasonable projections about asset growth, we assess how much more people would need to save in … order to preserve consumption levels after retirement. We find that the median older household has current wealth of …

In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …

. We then use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate whether individuals' actual claiming behavior …

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

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor … status and transitions during the pre-retirement years: learning from international differences / Arie Kapteyn, James P … -- Retirement saving -- The rise of 401(k) plans, lifetime earnings, and wealth at retirement / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti …