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The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste from birth. Two identical surveys of household heads (each...
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Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent with these fundamentally selective testimonies. We study the survival of the 140 thousand Jews who...
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We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …
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scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the retirement age and the steady state level … of capital. The effect on pension payouts is in general ambiguous, except for the solution of full retirement, when this …
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In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … retirement eligible have a 13 percent higher probability of being employed than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension …
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Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of … spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …
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We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not subject to laws governing division of marital property at divorce, because it is not acquired...
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We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …
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Transitioning into retirement is an under-researched phenomenon in developing countries. Largely, this is linked to a … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement … retirement among the rural elderly by around 15%. …
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