This paper examines the causal effect of retirement on health and healthcare utilization using two identification … strategies on Danish full population data. First, I use a reform of the statutory retirement age in an IV design. Second, I use a … large discontinuity in retirement take-up at the earliest age of retirement (60) in a regression discontinuity design. The …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension … retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

spouses. This paper analyses the impact of women's pension incentives on the retirement decision of their husband. The 1993 …Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which … retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially important spill-over effects on the participation of …

This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry …, thus shedding some light on the biological mechanisms linking smoking to disability retirement. We demonstrate a strong … association between smoking and disability retirement. Among individuals aged 50-64, smokers have a six percentage point higher …

We examine the impact of a Finnish reform in the 1990s that restricted the use of particular early retirement channels …, unemployment pension and individual early retirement, and simultaneously changed the rules of firm size related experience rating … in disability pensions. Our emphasis is on how the reforms affected the incentives of the firms to hire older employees …

In this paper we analyse the role that Social Security wealth and incentives play in the transition to retirement in … at old age and investigate the role played by such incentives and by other socio-economic variables on the retirement … stricter in general. We carry out a dynamic reduced-form analysis of the retirement decision using a duration model. Our …