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 …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … is aligned with its actual consequence: retirement exerts a positive causal impact on health. …

is virtually zero and that of financial assets wealth is positive, increasing the retirement probability. The … been made in the US labour market, using a dynamic panel probit model. The estimated income effect of higher housing wealth … substitution effect of earned income is negative, thus decreasing the retirement probability. The retirement decision is strongly …

this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people …

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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

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 …

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 …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to …Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals. -- Retirement ; health ; matching … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …