A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … association between retirement duration - defined as time elapsed since last job ended - and cognition. This association is …

impact of a tax on household wealth in Ireland under a wide range of assumptions on how such a tax might be designed. We … compare results based on models of existing taxes on household wealth across Europe and a number of hypothetical scenarios to … between income and wealth, we find that in almost every scenario, a non-negligible proportion of the tax would be collected …

Information on the frequency, value and composition of household wealth transfers has been fairly limited in Ireland … household main residence and businesses/farms are identified as the most important asset type in wealth transfers. Overall … association between inheritance and position in the wealth distribution, controlling for other factors. We find that that having …

We hypothesise and confirm a substantial framing effect in relation to whether people opt for an annuity on retirement …" - than when they were initially conceived of as retirement income. The effect was recorded using both a matching and a choice …