This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the 1992-1998 Health and Retirement Study. Measured … in the 1969-1979 Retirement History Survey is reduced from 18 percentage point to 11 percentage points in the Health and … retirement differs with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed. Twenty-two percent of the sample …

state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … from the 1969-79 Retirement History Study and the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Consumer Finances. Simulations with a structural … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate reduced form retirement and wealth equations. The … retirement equation relates the probability of retiring to the quot;premium valuequot;, a forward looking measure of the future … simple models suggest that if the social security early retirement age were to be raised, more people would retire earlier …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the …

on information covering the period 1992 through 2000 from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a panel survey of …This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic stochastic model of the way individuals make retirement and … saving choices in an uncertain world, and applies that model to analyze the effects of the stock market bubble on retirement …

A structural life cycle model of retirement and wealth attributes retirement peaks at both ages 62 and 65 to Social … Security early entitlement age to 64 induces 5 percent of the population to delay retiring, shifting the retirement spike from …

This paper specifies and estimates a structural life cycle model of retirement and wealth that explains the peaks in … retirement both at ages 62 and at 65. Our estimates suggest that leisure and time preference are widely distributed among the … retirement activity at 62. Liquidity constraints from inability to borrow on Social Security and pension benefits add to this …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement … is seen to differ, sometimes substantially, with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed …. Moreover, these differences vary with the wave of the survey as respondents age. Retirement is comprised of a complex set of …

National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (NLS-MW) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). These calculations provide …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement … is seen to differ, sometimes substantially, with the definition of retirement used and among various groups analyzed …. Moreover, these differences vary with the wave of the survey as respondents age. Retirement is comprised of a complex set of …