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 …

part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …

According to the life-cycle model, mortality risk will influence both retirement and the desire to annuitize wealth …. The authors estimate the effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement and on the claiming of Social Security …

This paper analyzes a puzzling aspect of retirement behavior known as Òunretirement,Ó in which retirees appear to … reverse their retirement decisions and return to work. Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the author shows … that nearly 50 percent of retirees follow a nontraditional retirement path that involves partial retirement or unretirement …

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 …

Many countries are including personal retirement accounts (PRAs) as part of their social security systems. PRA systems … may lead to inadequate preparedness for retirement. The author tests this hypothesis by using the Mexican social security … savings for retirement along with social security reform. …