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 …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …