This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, non-parametric matching methods can be … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …

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 … correcting for it, we find that the average effect of retirement on health outcomes is small and barely significant. We apply …

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality …

support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental wellbeing around … retirement and consider both own and spouse's retirement. Using longitudinal data from Australia, we find little effect of own or … spouse's retirement on social support. However, in fixed-effects models, dynamics in mental wellbeing are significantly …

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 …

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 …

attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that …Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be … identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …

assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male ….We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the … savings to counter the effect of the reform. These workers, who are generally in worse health, have zero substitution rates …

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 …