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 …

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. …

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 …

and estimate a dynamic life cycle model to study optimal retirement and tax policy when individuals face health shocks and …, income taxation, and savings incentives and distinguishes three channels through which health affects retirement …Raising the retirement age is a common policy response when social security schemes face fiscal pressures. We develop …

to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid …

choice to a work-retirement decision model and show that the optimal provision of choice is positively related to the degree …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …