This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. …

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 …

In this paper we analyze the influence that incentives play in the timing of the transition to retirement in Spain. We … incentives and other socio-economic variables on the retirement hazard of men aged between 60 and 70, using a duration model to … significant role in retirement decisions, but that, after the reform, the latter effects become less important. …