We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … health improves, cognitive skills deteriorate and mortality is not affected. However, there is substantial effect … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account …