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 …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with …

In three empirical essays, this dissertation investigates changes in consumer behavior during the retirement transition … changes or an involuntary retirement, and the mechanisms through which these factors operate, such as personal adjustment need …

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 …

to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …

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. …