assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform had the intended effect on the …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

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 …