Household debt among older Americans approaching retirement has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades … household survey data to examine how late life debt affects retirement decisions, we find that more indebted older adults are …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …

The share of workers who are self-employed rises markedly with age. Given policy concerns about inadequate retirement …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …

We analyze the causal effect of retirement on the size, composition and intensity of social relationships using data … from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries. Our empirical strategy exploits the … different retirement eligibility ages as instruments for the endogenous individuals' retirement decisions and controls for time …

' retirement behavior. Our data contain both comprehensive information regarding perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and … intentions to retire from nationally representative cross-sectional surveys and information on employees' actual retirement … in turn is related to actual retirement during the follow-up period. …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement … vary in the same way, i.e. improve unexpectedly after retirement for men. These findings suggest that, at least in the case …

time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …