This study aimed to explore the impact of retirement on health through the application of a fixed effects instrumental …, physical independence, and self-rated health after retirement. Consistently, retirement was associated with reduced physical … inactivity and smoking among women, which was not observed among men. Sex differences in post-retirement health behaviors may …

this paper uses the European SHARE survey. Results are essentially fivefold. First, physical health and cognitive … performance deteriorate with age. Second, the 50-54 employment rate is negatively impacted by ill health, less so by poor … cognition. Third, ill health affects employment much more than hours. Fourth, there is no evidence of health justification bias …

It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including … health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data … sets. This problem is exacerbated when a model spanning multiple countries is desired, because self-reports on health may …

the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? This paper asks how much older individuals (55-75) could work if they worked … as much as their younger (50-54) counterparts in similar health/with equal cognition. It uses international, European …, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …