to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …

examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree … health benefits and the relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement behavior, which is important for the … other than employerprovided insurance. On the relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement, we find that …

We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample … of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) men observed over a period of up to 12 years. We hypothesize that the effect of RHBs … three wellknown panel data estimators and find that, for men in their 50s, RHBs have little or no effect on retirement …

We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample … of men observed over a period of up to 12 years in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our main concern is that such … estimates may be contaminated by unobserved heterogeneity-workers with a taste for early retirement sort into jobs offering RHBs …

retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. …