Population ageing is prompting governments around the world to increase the retirement age. However, not all workers may be equally able to extend their working lives as they may face adverse health consequences. In this article, we examine the health and labour market effects of an Italian...

Using Swedish administrative data and an event-study design, this paper studies the impact of grandparenthood on retirement behaviour. The results show a significant increase in the retirement probability for grandmothers and grandfathers when the first grandchild is born, with no significant...

Purpose: We assessed COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 data in El Paso, Texas, a largely Hispanic population, particularly the interaction between older age and diabetes mellitus on the risk of COVID-19 mortality.Methods: We calculated age-adjusted morbidity and mortality rate ratios by age, gender,...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only changed the landscape of health insurance coverage in the United States, but also affected the relationship between working decisions and health insurance. In this paper, we estimate the impact of the ACA on the near-elderly (ages 60- 64) in the five years...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large and immediate drop in employment among US workers, along with major expansions of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to study employment among older adults and their...

Globally, coal is still widely used for heating. However, there are concerns about its effect on ambient air quality and health. We estimated the effect of bituminous coal bans, prohibiting the sale and use of so-called “smoky coal”, on the prevalence of lung disease in older people. Our...

Leveraging two cohort-specific pension reforms, this paper estimates the forwardlooking effects of an exogenous increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using differencein-differences and regression discontinuity...