We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … European countries, we show that health care utilization increases when individuals retire. This is true both for the number of … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring …

Ambulance response time to emergency calls is a key indicator of a health system's efficiency although its impact on … health is not precisely known. This causal relation is identified by exploiting rainfall at the time of the ambulance run as …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … subjective health status and mental health, while also reducing outpatient care utilization. I explore a wide range of health … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. …

unintended side effects with regards to retiree health or healthcare costs. This study empirically analyzes the effect of (early … components of healthcare expenditure confirm a positive health effect caused by physical and emotional relief following … retirement. Apart from direct health effects, the results also reveal behavioral changes in the utilization of healthcare …

We study how severe acute health shocks affect the probability of not working in the U. S. versus in Denmark. The … how different types of health care and health insurance systems affect individual decisions of labor force participation …. We find that the effect of an acute health shock on labor force participation is stronger in the U.S. than in Denmark …