the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health …This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation … introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 …

to explore the health capacity to work among older persons. Using census data and data from the China Health and … Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper applies two widely used methods to estimate the additional health capacity to work. The …The People's Republic of China is aging rapidly at one of the most rapid paces in the world. The resulting decline in …

consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data from China, we examine how a new retirement program affects cognitive … that the program leads to larger negative impacts among women. We demonstrate that retirement and access to a retirement …