"boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as … well as on their wealth, health, and life satisfaction. Event study analysis suggests that boomerang children return home …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … “unused capacity” in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status and … work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role. …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress, increased sleep … duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. Moreover, the …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design … sleep duration as well as more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health. … to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

English Abstract We use SHARE data from eight European countries to measure the evolution of health of middle …-aged individuals over time. In contrast to earlier findings in Europe, we observe a stalling health trend for individuals of later year … of birth using an index measuring health deficits. We even observe a slightly negative trend for men and large …

In this chapter, we first discuss the history of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) network of surveys and how its … research. Such opportunities are ample and diverse, ranging from frailty and financial abuse to health care arrangements in the …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …