Geyer, Johannes; Barschkett, Mara; Haan, Peter; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 24 (2022) 7, pp. 1101-1120
health care costs of a sizable increase in the retirement age in Germany. For the identification, we exploit a sizable cohort …-specific pension reform which abolished an early retirement program for all women born after 1951. Our results show that health care … costs significantly increase by about 2.9% in the age group directly affected by the increase in the retirement age (women …