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data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …
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rnarket status is expected to have a (reverse) causal effect on health. A solution to the 'Health and Retirement Nexus …
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This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. First, a … longitudinal survey among older Americans allows controlling for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement … decision. Second, a cross-national European survey allows identifying the causal effect of retirement on cognition by using the …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051349
This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … social security institutions in shaping the European patterns of work and retirement. We provide evidence on the extent of … quot;unused capacityquot; in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status …
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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Retirement Nexus' requires an integrated model for work decisions, health production and health reporting mechanisms. We …
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This paper offers an explanation for the puzzle of low wealth holdings among a significant fraction of the elderly. Instead of invoking irrational, non-rational, or non-optimal behavior to resolve the puzzle, it is shown that widespread low wealth holdings are consistent with a rational...
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