unequivocally proven. Retirement is associated with a large change in a person's daily routine and environment. In this paper, the … authors propose two mechanisms how retirement may lead to cognitive decline. For many people retirement leads to a less … stimulating daily environment. In addition, the prospect of retirement reduces the incentive to engage in mentally stimulating …

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement implying … that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon has been called the retirement consumption puzzle …. In contrast to some of the previous studies, the authors find no evidence of the retirement consumption puzzle during the …

Retirement Study. They compare model simulations with those from a standard unitary model for a set of policy reforms; such as …

The authors examine how public and private pension and health insurance systems affect retirement transitions. In many … and salary workers, and these differences are likely to cause differential retirement patterns both within and across … retirement patterns. Based on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the United States and the English …