While numerous studies have examined how health affects retirement behavior, few have analyzed the impact of retirement … on subsequent health outcomes. This study estimates the effects of retirement on health status as measured by indicators … waves of the Health and Retirement Study, spanning 1992 through 2005. To account for biases due to unobserved selection and …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …

Retirement Around the World. This project, which compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries, was launched in the mid … project document that social security program provisions can create powerful incentives for retirement that are strongly … provisions and their effects on retirement as well as potential obstacles to promoting work at older ages, including whether …

United Kingdom, given their health, and how this has evolved over the last decade. The objective is not to suggest how much … older people should work but rather to shed light on how much ill-health (as opposed to other constraints and preferences … older people seen over the last decade are more rapid than would have been expected based on the improvements seen in health …

health capacity to work longer. For that purpose we use Milligan-Wise and Cutler-Meara Cutler-Meara- Richards …

individuals could work if they worked as much as younger ones in similar health (the Cutler et al. method). Results from both of … these methods underscore a large work capacity in old age in Japan. We further investigate differences in health capacity …

Following an era of a development towards earlier retirement, there has been a reversed trend to later exit from the … labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and … as much as the age group 50-54 at a particular level of health. We also provide evidence on the development of self …

ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This … mortality rate in the past or as much as their younger counterparts in similar health. Using both methods, we estimate that … there is significant additional capacity to work at older ages. We also explore whether there are differences in health …

Retirement Around the World. The project compares the experiences of a dozen developed countries and uses differences in their … retirement program provisions to explore the effect of SS on retirement and related questions. The first three phases of this … project document that: 1) incentives for retirement from SS are strongly correlated with labor force participation rates …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … older persons will increase the unemployment of youth. The fifth phase on "Historical Trends in Mortality and Health … extending the methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI …