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

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

retirement regulations moderate the effects, thus emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health in old age for …Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This …