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 …

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 … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …

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 …

We examine whether and how retirement affects migration decisions in China. Using a regression discontinuity (RD … retirement increases the probability of migration by 12.9 percentage points. Approximately 38% of the total migration effects can … be attributed to inter-temporal substitution (delayed migration). Retirement-induced migrants are lower-educated and have …

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 objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are … study the link between retirement and financial retirement incentives created by the social security system. We find that … the household replacement rate generates slightly higher retirement incentives through an income effect and we find that …