for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …

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

Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to … foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … adopt unhealthy behaviors. Depending on the relative importance of the different mechanisms, retirement may either improve …