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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

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 … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

This study examines the effect of various social, demographic, and economic variables on retirement preparation and … retirement. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, probit analysis indicates that respondents' income and job tenure …, indicate that individuals who report the reason for saving is retirement are more likely to contribute to their pension plans …

Tax-qualified vehicles helped U.S. private-sector workers accumulate $25Tr in retirement assets. An often …-overlooked important institutional feature shaping decumulations from these retirement plans is the "Required Minimum Distribution" (RMD …) regulation, requiring retirees to withdraw a minimum fraction from their retirement accounts or pay excise taxes on withdrawal …

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 … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

retirement reduced their non-housing saving rate by 3.5 percentage points, on average. This mean effect is driven by high … interpretation is that the survey acted as a salience shock, possibly with respect to reduced housing costs in retirement. …