retirement, with about one in seven men and one in nine women ages 60 to 64 now enrolled in the program. This study explores how … financial incentives from Social Security and DI affect retirement decisions, using an option value approach. We find that … financial incentives have a significant effect on retirement, particularly for those in poor health or with low education, who …

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

individual's retirement behavior would have been if only one retirement route had existed and in the absence of constraints on … work capabilities. We show that average years of work between 55 and 64 are nearly 14% greater when regular retirement …We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France …

ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), we …. When we explore the reasons for delayed retirement among older women, factors include education, more marital disruption … retirement planning include having more education and greater financial literacy. Those who report excessive amounts of debt and …

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of increasing the Early Retirement Age (ERA) on older workers …' retirement decisions. The analysis is based on social security reforms in Austria in 2000 and 2004, and administrative data …