This article explores the potential effects of retirement on mental health and health care utilisation isolating … sources of potential heterogeneity in treatment effect. To estimate the effects of retirement, we devise a new identifying … British Household Panel Survey, a rich representative longitudinal survey. It is found that retirement has a small impact on …

individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. Our modeling approach allows life expectancy and the nature of the … public pension system to influence the decisions of forward-looking individuals planning for retirement. We calculate that …, increasing the full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

.75 hours per week in Canada, but in the U.S it remained relatively stable, and (3) over the sample period, leisure time … increased in the U.S., but fell in Canada. In addition, the least educated enjoy more leisure relative to the most highly …

This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent … studies highlight gradual retirement as an attractive option to older workers as they approach full retirement. However, it is … not clear whether phasing or cold turkey makes for a happier retirement. Using longitudinal data from the Health and …

just those at the point of retirement, this approach can provide additional insights on the efficacy of pension systems in … individuals above the 60% relative poverty threshold throughout retirement. Our simulations suggest that the gradual negative … lengthening of the time spent in receipt of retirement benefits. The consumption smoothing function of state pensions has declined …

deepening, and indirect effects, working through changes of taxes, government spending components and the retirement age in …. The closed-form solutions of the model predict taxation and the retirement age in OECD economies to increase in response … to demographic ageing and per-capita growth to accelerate. If the retirement age were held constant, the growth rate in …