Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement …

China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … the problem of reverse causality (running from health condition to retirement). Our findings indicate that retirement …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the …

Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study … persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach … provides a clear direction of causality from social conditions to health, and in a second stage to well-being. Natives and …

retirement regulations moderate the effects, thus emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health in old age for …Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This …

We investigate the effect of an acute health shock on retirement among elderly male workers in Denmark, 1991-1999, and … that an acute health event increases the retirement chances of elderly male workers by 8%, and that this increase in the …, the retirement rate following a health shock is reduced to 3% with the introduction of the subsidized employment program …