We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …

wealth. This pattern is consistent across multiple retirement age thresholds and cohorts, including both individuals who have …

application to reference dependence exhibited in German workers' retirement decisions. Both simulation and sufficient statistics … results suggest positive welfare effects of increasing the Normal Retirement Age, but ambiguous effects of financial … incentives to postpone retirement. Finally, we study how adopting alternative models of reference dependent preferences modifies …

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …

We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

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 …

reforms for a fixed retirement age distribution. The behavioral effect accounts for the endogenous change caused by changes in …

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted …

Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that raising the FRA while imposing small early … claiming penalties significantly delays pension claiming and retirement, but imposing large penalties and holding the FRA fixed …