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 …

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are …In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of …-specific early and full statutory retirement ages to instrument the latter. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement behavior …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … is aligned with its actual consequence: retirement exerts a positive causal impact on health …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …. Estimates also indicate that retirement has quite diverse effects for different individuals …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

' social security contributions and measures discouraging early retirement while encouraging working time reductions at the end …