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 … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

; retirement ; disability insurance ; health … cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

data and a large retirement reform, I document that parents' retirement significantly affects the labor supply of their … adult children. This inter-generational link is driven solely by mothers. Concretely, mothers' retirement permanently … earlier, suggesting an important role of informal childcare as a driving mechanism. Survey data confirm that retirement …