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mandatory retirement age may thus not only have positive government income effects but also negative effects on increasing …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …
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mandatory retirement age may thus not only have positive government income effects but also negative effects on increasing …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …
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We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a … to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75). Survey evidence suggests that additional pension income improves …
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Despite the rapidly aging population, relatively little is known about how cost sharing affects the elderly's medical spending. Exploiting longitudinal claims data and the drastic reduction of coinsurance from 30% to 10% at age 70 in Japan, we find that the elderly's demand responses are...
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This paper estimates and decomposes income-related health inequality for people nearing retirement age in the US by … analyzing data from Health and Retirement Study. To reveal the whole picture of health deterioration with respect to income … ranking, we use Petrie et al. (2011)’s newly proposed income and health mobility, explicitly accounting for the dead in a …
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highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement …
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empirical analysis of the validity of an age-based instrumental variable for retirement (eligibility for the US Social Security … Retirement Pension, SSRP). The point estimates suggest an insignificant negative LATE of 8.6% within +/-9 months around the SSRP …. Partial identification regions qualify this finding by, first, suggesting that if retirement is, in fact, detrimental for the …
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ordinary least squares, instrumental variables estimates based on the notch suggest that lower-income retirees exhibit … considerable income sensitivity in their use of prescription drugs. Our estimates are potentially useful for thinking about the …
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