Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …

This paper shows that the measurement of hand grip strength provides a non-invasive and reliable objective health … complement of self-reported indicators of health, but it also exhibits a considerable predictive power with regard to a number of … further relevant variables, such as mortality risks. New data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe …