We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological … modelling of couples' incentives leads to very different patterns of retirement incentives - particularly for women. We apply … the new indicators to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE) in Belgium and find two key …

A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … association between retirement and cognitive functioning. These estimates are based on the assumption that retirement is exogenous …

A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have … argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to this literature using data of older women … association between retirement duration - defined as time elapsed since last job ended - and cognition. This association is …

Health and Retirement Study merged to local house prices from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, we estimate the effect of … house-price changes on actual and planned retirement timing. While we find no effect of house-price changes on the annual … probability of retiring, we find that people respond to rising house prices by revising down their expected retirement age. We …

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of … retirement eligible have a 13 percent higher probability of being employed than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension …