This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

We find that segments of society who have shorter life expectancy can expect a lower retirement income and lifetime … utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life …

and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …