Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement …

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the …

Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study … persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach … provides a clear direction of causality from social conditions to health, and in a second stage to well-being. Natives and …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …

identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …