failing health drives retirement. We exploit the panel dimension of the 1991-93-97 waves of the China Health and Nutrition …Deborah Davis-Friedmann (1991) described the "retirement" pattern of the Chinese elderly in the prereform era as … metaphor of ceaseless toil in a labor supply model, where we highlight the role of age and deteriorating health. The empirical …

receive health benefits from their employers, especially when those benefits do not continue after retirement. As a result, an … increase in the age of Medicare eligibility might affect retirement behavior by relating the health insurance costs of … retirement to labor supply decisions. The insurance cost of retirement is the increase in health insurance premiums that workers …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older …

. Using data for 10 countries from the Survey of Health, Retirement and Ageing in Europe (SHARE), we find that retiring both …Does retirement lead to a short, transitory health boost, followed by a stable longer-run effect? The short-run effect … positive or negative. We examine the time path of the health effect of retirement and study effect heterogeneities between …

"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 study aimed to explore the impact of retirement on health through the application of a fixed effects instrumental …, physical independence, and self-rated health after retirement. Consistently, retirement was associated with reduced physical … inactivity and smoking among women, which was not observed among men. Sex differences in post-retirement health behaviors may …

We study how retirement affects mental health using a partial identification framework for panel data. We consider … a moderate, positive effect on younger individuals whose pre-retirement mental health is below average of the … mental health of the majority of the population, it is advisable to facilitate the retirement of people with poor mental …

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 …

The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on … consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. They argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily … deteriorating health as an important reason for early retirement. They find that improvements in population health decrease the …

This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … correcting for it, we find that the average effect of retirement on health outcomes is small and barely significant. We apply …