address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

structural model is estimated in which utility is the discounted sum of within period utilities that depend on employment status …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives, thereby substantially reducing the implied tax on the husband's employment … for employment, we find that working an additional full year at old age decreases longevity. This mortality effect occurs …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multidimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …’ participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …