appears small is that there are events within marriage that can also affect insurance coverage, such as retirement or health …We have found modest effects of widowhood events on loss of health insurance. There are also modest effects of …, however, are not random with respect to initial conditions. Both initial health insurance status and risk of future widowhood …

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction …; when employees become eligible for pension benefits the change in financial incentives they experience is so high that …

paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick … those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this …

paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick … those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this …