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 …

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 …

Population ageing in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, many argue that this age … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that …

Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We … examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …