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 …

Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere …Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf … Ruhestand anhand des gesetzlichen Rentenalters ("normal" und "früh") und stellen fest, dass die Gesundheit von Arbeitnehmern in …

white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement policies could be designed to provide a fair and aggregate welfare … increase in replacement rates of blue-collar workers. If the statutory retirement age is sufficiently high or the life … retirement incentives. …

1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … not for females. This effect persists when we include controls for onset of other health conditions, two of which are …

approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize … implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … is approximately optimal. Future progress in medical technology calls for a potentially drastic increase in health …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …

deliveries. They also have better health and schooling outcomes during early childhood. These early-life improvements are … consequential, as they have been linked to better health, education, and labor market outcomes in adulthood. …

and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account …

structure, and retirement. Our results reveal substantial heterogeneity on labor market effects and life decisions in response …