This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation of older women consists disproportionately of those working at full-time …

changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older … ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), we … show that older women's current and intended future labor force attachment patterns are changing over time. Specifically …

parental time investment measured by time out of the labor force is higher for first-borns at ages 2-4, suggesting that the …

the late 1990s - and at the same time the steady increase in older women's labor force participation. In a first step, we … retirement. Regarding women, whether public pension rules play a role is unclear. Most probably, the secular change of women …

chapter discusses factors that contribute to this differential change over time. Changes in education, marital status, home …

time of their lives when average annual weight gain is greatest. We allow body mass to explain variation in wages …

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal … retirement, disability insurance (DI) and unemployment/preretirement pathways, and is estimated with a combination of …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …