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rnarket status is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the 'Health and Retirement Nexus …
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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 …
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This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …
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We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives ́probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …
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the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …
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We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … problems make older workers more responsive to financial incentives encouraging retirement (reinforcement proposition). We test …
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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 …
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disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
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Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, which contains retrospective information on early life circumstances and …
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