I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds … for the universe of participants in the German public pension system. Using variation from bunching of retirements at age-based … eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects …

I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds … for the universe of participants in the German public pension system. Using variation from bunching of retirements at age-based … eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects …