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Retirement Nexus' requires an integrated model for work decisions, health production and health reporting mechanisms. We …
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Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …
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This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …
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disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
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A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Housing Studies</I> (2013). Volume 28, issue 5, pages 746-763.<P> Elderly home-owners get institutionalized less often than renters do. We hypothesize that housing tenure itself explains this behavior. Using longitudinal data from a Dutch community...</p></i>
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Spain after retirement. To evaluate this coinsurance change we use a rich administrative dataset that links pharmaceutical … eligibility age for Social Security to control for the endogeneity of the retirement decision. Our most conservative results show …
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This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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