countries, these debates grow in intensity with the aging of the population; however, an increase in retirement age may create …) retirement on individual inpatient and outpatient healthcare expenditure in Austria. We use comprehensive labor market and … retirement data from the Austrian Social Security Database, together with detailed information about individual inpatient and …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization. Using SHARE data (from 2004 to 2013) for 10 … affected. We also find that the impact of retirement on health care utilization is significantly stronger for workers retiring … distribution of hours worked. This suggests that at least part of the increase in medical care use following retirement is due to …

We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on … the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by …

services in retirement and evaluates the use of health savings accounts (HSAs) to save for those expenses. Proponents of HSAs … they are unlikely to play more than a minor part in savings for health care costs in retirement. If an individual age 55 in … costs in retirement. A man age 55 in 2009 would need between $144,000-$290,000 by the time he reached age 65 in 2019 …