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 …

the Current Population Survey and Health and Retirement Study, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare …

is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …

many people to enter partial retirement as would leave full-time work, so that total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment …This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our …

This paper uses the receipt of an inheritance to measure the effect of wealth shocks on retirement. Using the Health … and Retirement Study (HRS), we first document that inheritance receipt is common among older workers %u2013 one in five … receipt is associated with a significant increase in the probability of retirement. In particular, we find that receiving an …

This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic stochastic model of the way individuals make retirement and … saving choices in an uncertain world, and applies that model to analyze the effects of the stock market bubble on retirement … behavior. The model includes individual variation both in retirement preferences and in time preferences. Estimates are based …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement …, while reducing full time work and full retirement, resulting in only a small net increase in full-time equivalent employment …A structural retirement model estimated with data from the Health and Retirement Study is used to simulate the effects …

the alpha release of the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the extent to which variation in health and job …