1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …

Most industrialized countries today are facing historical demographic changes, paring increasing retirement with a … this effect by exploiting variation in the pre-determined component of retirement. We find that a 10-point increase in the …

We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full …-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension … joint retirement, which is driven by older spouses working longer. Accounting for these age differences reveals a strong …

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in … individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is … strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement ages, indicating an inherent association between occupations and …