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earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts that the normal retirement age is strictly …The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China …, the probability of working after normal retirement age is positively related to living with a spouse only, being healthy …
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consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment to test whether active choice framing impacts US Army service members' decision to transfer benefits. Individuals who received email messages framing GI Bill use...
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literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in relative terms based on local temperature patterns. Combining the China … Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and environmental data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
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retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employer- employee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar … reductions in job separation rates and retirement hazards at age 65, with further reductions at higher ages. The effects vary … on savings behavior, workplace injuries, and spousal retirement timing. …
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours...
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This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
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The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …
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Using data from the 2010 and 2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and the associated Well-being Modules, this paper examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. Different caregiving activities are examined, including caring for household children, caring for...
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We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …
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