We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and show that the effect of voluntary retirement on satisfaction with current household income is negative … voluntary and involuntary retirement. The effect of involuntary retirement is negative because the adverse effect on …

This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. First, a … longitudinal survey among older Americans allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement … decision. Second, a cross-national European survey allows identifying the causal effect of retirement on cognition by using the …

consider joint behavior of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production … of both partners in a couple. Our identification strategy exploits the earliest age retirement laws in France, enabling a … fuzzy regression discontinuity approach. We find that own retirement significantly increases own hours of home production …

system in the Netherlands to calculate net replacement rates at each age from 60 to 70 in full and partial retirement … analyze the implications of late full retirement and partial retirement for the occupational and state pension entitlements …. We pay particular attention to the retirement scenarios that are relevant for the current policy measures, aimed at …

The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore … retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990 … explicitly takes into account the different take‐up rates of the various early retirement exit paths across time and ages. The …

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 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 …

retirement route for employees. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that job search requirements among unemployed older …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

program participation. The paper shows the key role of integrating other forms of early retirement programs into the analysis … of (early-) retirement schemes …

A majority of older Finns withdraw from employment via early retirement schemes years before the statutory retirement …