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Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows
Coe, Norma; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … use unexpected early retirement window offers to instrument for retirement behavior. They are legally required to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324798
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The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130792
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Lundborg, Petter - 2011
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118516
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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life : Evidence from Eleven European Countries
Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011
, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive …. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120826
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The Economics of Grief
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097214
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions : Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo - 2016
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy experiment, we address the endogeneity of pension income by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001346
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The Effect of Pensions on Longevity : Evidence from Union Army Veterans
Salm, Martin - 2007
This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a relationship. We examine the effects of the pension laws of 1907 and 1912, which granted old-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777268
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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces many health status aspects over time, and that is linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778230
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779048
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Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population : A Health Capital Approach
Zhao, Zhong - 2006
Using 2002 cross-sectional data and 1998, 2000, 2002 three waves of panel data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783522