We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

health and longevity have not been uniform across the population. To this end, we develop a dynamic, structural life cycle … model of heterogeneous agents who face health, mortality and income risk. We consider the following policy reform measures …

of these periods differs across countries. We apply data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE … year of birth, controlling for demographic, socioeconomic and health status. We find that economic conditions at birth …

This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

percent of their annual income. The paper further shows that the negative income shock had no impact on the health of …