programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction …

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 …

first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low-income …This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the …

Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female … workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the causal effect of retirement on hospitalizations attributable to mental …

intended policy effects, as adult children who make income contributions to their parents could adjust their behavior in … response to changes in their parents’ income. Exploiting a unique policy intervention in China, we examine using a difference … of adult children to transfer income to elderly parents in the context of a large middle-income country, and we also …

We examine whether and how retirement affects migration decisions in China. Using a regression discontinuity (RD …) design approach combined with a nationally representative sample of 228,855 adults aged between 40 and 75, we find that … retirement increases the probability of migration by 12.9 percentage points. Approximately 38% of the total migration effects can …

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy … exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision … and controls for time-invariant individual characteristics. The results show that retirement leads to a statistically …

This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … utilization and mortality. Among 275 observations from 85 articles, 28% (13%) find positive (negative) effects of retirement on …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …

the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …. Nevertheless, we advocate that income redistribution measures should not be tied to a specific household composition and policies … benefits calculation effectively serve the income redistribution goal without favouring a certain type of household over …