This study focuses on the influence of heavy job demands on retirement, using the available SHARE waves. Heavy job … demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self … levels of socioeconomic status. Heavy job demands are associated with on average higher retirement probabilities, once …

This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal effect of spousal … retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement … effects by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design using retirement eligibility as exogenous instruments for spousal …

Externalities in leisure are considered an important reason for partners' joint retirement. This study quantifies the … extent to which partners actually spend more leisure time "together" at retirement. Exploiting legal retirement age in France …, we identify the effect of retirement on partners' hours of leisure, distinguishing leisure hours spent together or not …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …