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 …

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 …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support …

; retirement ; disability insurance ; health … cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …