are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

.The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).We examine the value added of … objective health variables in relation to potentially endogenous self-reported health.We approach the endogeneity of self …-reported health as an omitted variables problem.In line with the literature on the reliability of self-reported health, ambiguous …

The effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse relationship …, whether retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. To identify the causal relationship, we use early retirement … window offers to instrument for retirement. We find no negative effects of early retirement on men’s health, and if anything …

We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver … carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child using fixed effects and Arellano-Bond estimation … the mother. The initial onset of caregiving, by contrast, has no immediate effects on physical or mental health for any …

five waves of the Health and Retirement Study.We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform proposals …

pension scheme contains within-cohort redistribution and induces early retirement. Such a Pareto-improving reform entails the …-neutrality that stimulates later retirement further improves such a flexibility reform. …

Are retirement savings sufficient to finance a good pension income? This highly uncertain and subjective dimension of …

couples in the US. Using six biennial waves of couples aged 51-61 in 1992 from the Health and Retirement Study, we compare the …A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study …