the Health and Retirement Study to examine how mental health is linked to transitions to early retirement or other …This paper extends earlier health and work studies by examining how mental health affects transitions out of paid work … in the years prior to the traditional Social Security retirement ages. Given recent changes in the labor market, optimal …

We develop a rich model to study the complex interrelationship between health insurance and retirement decisions. The … decision to retire depends on a number of factors including availability of health insurance, health shocks, pensions, Social … Security, and how consumption and health interact in the utility function. We incorporate these features in a computational …

search behavior of households. The research finds that, even though a direct transition from a career job to full retirement … 7% of them looked for a post-career employment opportunity. Low health or bad business conditions were the not the main … reason for leaving the career job. Yet, for the minority of those who did leave career jobs owing to low health or bad …

This paper uses asset and labor market data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate how the recent … "Great Recession" has affected the wealth and retirement of those in the population who were just approaching retirement age … at the beginning of the recession, a potentially vulnerable segment of the working age population. The retirement wealth …

the Health and Retirement Study. It explains the relation of specific features of Social Security - the benefit amount …This paper is based on a structural model of retirement and saving, estimated with data for a sample of married men in …, the early entitlement age, the normal retirement age, earnings test parameters, and the delayed retirement credit - to the …

" retirement age, based on a question that has been included in each wave of the Health and Retirement Study HRS). Using actual …Existing research on retirement behavior tends to ignore "conventional" or "focal" or "usual" retirement ages in the … observed spikes in the retirement hazard at age 62 and 65. This paper, in contrast, focuses on a direct measure of "usual …

This project uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine, in the context of a structural retirement model … made by the employer when a person has a health problem, and retirement windows. The most important effects found pertain …, the effects on retirement of non-wage aspects of employment emanating from firm side factors. Factors examined include …

. Here we show that social security income (i.e., income from public, industry-wide, insurance-based, retirement and …

-entry in a standard retirement model. We apply this model to the longitudinal Health and Retirement Study, presenting a novel … unretirement. We illustrate theoretically how predictable time variation in burnout could generate retirement and subsequent re … profile discriminates among different types of retirees. For example, prior to retirement, burnout rises steeply for future …