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 …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …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 …

We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a …

concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … singles only this implies distortions of retirement decision and restricts redistribution across genders. With couples, a … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …

retirement age. We look at a scenario where an economy has a pay-as-you-go defined benefit scheme and compare it to a scenario …

We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal … data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … own retirement significantly increases the amounts of home production. There are negative cross-effects of retirement on …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three …-period overlapping generations model. We focus on both the case of mandatory retirement and the case where the retirement age is freely … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and …

. It is likely that the individual level of wealth will become an increasingly important factor in the retirement decision … effect of wealth on the probability to retire (early). -- retirement ; life cycle models ; saving …