to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job … administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree …

cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to explore the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the … relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement behavior. A better understanding of this relationship is important to … benefits and retirement, we find that workers with retiree benefits were 29 to 55 percent more likely to retire than those …