This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement … is seen to differ, sometimes substantially, with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed …. Moreover, these differences vary with the wave of the survey as respondents age. Retirement is comprised of a complex set of …

and Retirement Study, this paper explores asset holdings among a nationally representative sample of people on the verge … of retirement. Making reasonable projections about asset growth, we assess how much more people would need to save in … order to preserve consumption levels after retirement. We find that the median older household has current wealth of …

In most data sets of labor force participation of the elderly, an empirical regularity that emerges is that retirement … given the economic considerations that retirees typically face. This paper considers the puzzle of why retirement rates are …

We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …

. We then use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate whether individuals' actual claiming behavior …

Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective …

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …

programs with retirement incentives are larger and that the old are more single-minded' in their politics, implications which …

and retirement status of the elderly. Standard linear estimators, which assume that these variable sare continuous, are … endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …