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Understanding the effect of retirement on health using Regression Discontinuity Design
Eibich, Peter - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384420
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Where people live and die makes a difference : individual and geographic disparities in well-being progression at the end of life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2010
Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825082
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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland : die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten
Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826577
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Comparing the predictive power of subjective and objective health indicators : changes in handgrip strength and overall satisfaction with life as predictors of mortality
Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269233
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The socio-economic module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE) : description, structure, and questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775660
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Caring alone? : social capital and the mental health of caregivers
Thiel, Lars - 2016
This study analyzes the role of social capital in buffering the negative relationship between informal-care provision and mental health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and fixed-effect regression models, we show that those individuals who socialize more frequently enjoy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530424
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben - 2019
In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053194
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Are retirees more satisfied? - anticipation and adaptation effects of retirement on subjective well-being : a panel analysis for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2018
concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … satisfaction indeed is decreasing before retirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911197
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214862
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666701