We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement … expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit …

We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement … expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit …

The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on … consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. They argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily … mortality have continued to improve in the developed world, retirement ages have continued to fall with retirees pointing to …

first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …