explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …

professional achievement and educational attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are …

attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery. …

health, and physical health. We present a detailed mapping of these genetic indices by occupation and study major. We show …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

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 …