unequivocally proven. Retirement is associated with a large change in a person’s daily routine and environment. In this paper, we … propose two mechanisms how retirement may lead to cognitive decline. For many people retirement leads to a less stimulating … daily environment. In addition, the prospect of retirement reduces the incentive to engage in mentally stimulating …

In this project we study joint retirement of couples in Europe. We characterize various empirical regularities and use … duration models cannot account for joint retirement, our model admits joint retirement with positive probability, allows for … Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing (ELSA) …

This study examines the sensitivity of the retirement age decision to standard retirement ages in pension overviews …. Specifically, their retirement age corresponds to the age of the anchor. The effect of the age anchor on the retirement age is … of social interactions are limited. This suggests that age anchors may have a distinct effect on the retirement age …

In the policy debate on increasing the statutory retirement age, the issue has been raised to make an exception for … retirement scheme for such occupations through higher taxes. A representative sample of Dutch adults answered several questions … confounding factors affecting the evaluations of the demanding nature of the jobs as well as their reasonable retirement age or …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives – particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

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 …

This paper uses longitudinal test data to analyze the relation between retirement and cognitive development … appears to be persistent 6 years after retirement. Both effects of retirement on cognitive development are comparable to the … effect of a five to six-year age difference. We show that the effects of retirement on cognitive decline cannot be explained …

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

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 …

same time, the distribution of wealth is widely dispersed and many workers arrive on the verge of retirement with few or no … from the equity premium. Second, financial literacy is positively related to retirement planning, and the development of a …