employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … resources explain much of the urban-rural difference in retirement rates. The paper suggests that reducing disincentives created …