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 … voluntary and involuntary retirement. The effect of involuntary retirement is negative because the adverse effect on …

and purchasing power of old age social security benefits, and the average retirement age ten or twenty years from now. We …

retirement and claiming decision making. First, I find that, despite the previous availability of information, the Statement has … workers need to gather costly information in order to improve their retirement decision. Second, I use this exogenous … their retirement behavior: i) Workers do not change their expected age of retirement after receiving the Statement; ii …

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 …

This paper explores the effect of letting individuals choose their retirement age in a world of uncertainty where there … finds that it is preferable to let people make their retirement decision after rather than before the uncertainty is lifted …

extensive and intensive labour supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to … fertility decline, a retirement reform, designed to increase labour supply at the extensive margin, is found to simultaneously … reduce labour supply at the intensive margin. This backlash to retirement reform requires the statutory retirement age to …

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 …

motives, such as saving for retirement, and saving behavior. Survey data show that many respondents save for retirement in … unconventional retirement accounts, such as investments in real estate. We show that finding the retirement motive important does not … directly translate in additional retirement savings. We show that the annuity stream generated by conventional and …