of this decision. This paper estimates the effects of retirement on several mental health outcomes using an ordered …-probit model. Results suggest that retirement is negatively related to mental health in four of the tested categories: cognitive … working longer may help to preserve mental health …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

this paper, we explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience declines in mental health compared … between mental health and other health outcomes, the potential impacts for the older populations of migrant-sending regions …

health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves …

trajectories for three important components of the overall health and wellbeing of older adults -- BMI, depressive symptoms and … cognition. We use the Health & Retirement Study (HRS) and group-based trajectory modelling (GBTM) to identify subgroups of … use fractional multinomial logit models to estimate associations of (1) polygenic scores for BMI, depression, ever …

Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which provides a rich dataset on the elderly European population. To obtain …Self-assessed health (SAH) is a frequently used measure of individuals’ health status. It is also prone to reporting … heterogeneity. To control for reporting heterogeneity valid measures of the objective health status are needed. The topic becomes …