, responsibility, difficulty, stress, peer pressure, and relations with co-workers are related to full or partial retirement. We study … employment transitions and retirement expectations of older workers by exploiting the wealth of information about individuals … older than age 50 in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and characteristics of different occupations provided by the …

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

related to economic success over the life course. Examining Health and Retirement Study survey data linked to Social Security … higher proportion of their earnings for retirement, and does conscientiousness of each partner in a married couple matter? Do …

We study the effects of the 2007-2009 recession on the population age 55 and older. Households in and near retirement … from the Health and Retirement Study and its supplemental surveys, we find that all of these adjustments have been …

Retirement Study (HRS) respondents over three survey waves in 2008, 2010, and 2012. We evaluate the demographic determinants and …

reliant on these pensions for retirement income. Most of these plans, however, are underfunded. Based on data from the Health … and Retirement Study, we examined the lifetime work histories of those observed at ages 67 to 72 in 2004, 2008, or 2014 … years of education and more economic resources. Among currently retired and near-retirement households, we compared economic …

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 …

appears small is that there are events within marriage that can also affect insurance coverage, such as retirement or health …