retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform extending long-term care (LTC) benefits (in the form of subsidies and … supports) in Spain after 2007 on caregiving spouse's early retirement intention. We subsequently examine the effect of … retirement reform among private sector workers in 2013. We document evidence of a 10pp reduction in the early retirement …

We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 …

We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase … based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement program, which entailed that adjacent birth cohorts were exposed to … completely different work incentives from age 62. The reform removed a strict retirement earnings test such that pension wealth …

Survey of Newborns in the 21st Century in Japan. We use a regression discontinuity design and find that the reduction of CB …

-of-the-art medical technology, attract qualified medical personnel, and refine management practices. We find that access to a Duke … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

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 …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …