This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

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 …

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 …

We analyze stated preference data on retirement. Survey respondents of ages 25 and older in the Netherlands were given … hypothetical retirement scenarios describing the age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and corresponding replacement rates …. Several types of retirement trajectories were considered - with retirement before, at, or after the standard retirement age …

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 …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on the wives' probability to retire within one year … which retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement benefits that were … early retirement opportunity of husbands increased the wives' probability to retire within one year by 25.4 percentage …

Households will have to increase their retirement-related assets to face the consequences of pension reforms and …/or increasing longevity. Thus, improving retirement planning seems then to be necessary. However, the literature reports a general …: encourage households with little private savings to better prepare the retirement. This population does not seem able to save …

Both the impacts of financial incentives and health on transitions into retirement and inactivity by older workers have … incentives on the retirement behaviour of workers who experienced health shocks and those who remained in good health. Our … evidence suggests that the impact on retirement of forward-looking incentive measures such as the peak value is conditional on …

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 …, while the effect on satisfaction with leisure is positive. At the same time, the effect on health satisfaction is positive …