We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female … workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the causal effect of retirement on hospitalizations attributable to mental …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … the potential benefits of retirement programs resulting from social spillover effects. In addition, these programs may …

We examine whether and how retirement affects migration decisions in China. Using a regression discontinuity (RD … retirement increases the probability of migration by 12.9 percentage points. Approximately 38% of the total migration effects can … be attributed to inter-temporal substitution (delayed migration). Retirement-induced migrants are lower-educated and have …

The primary policy response to population ageing in advanced economies has been to raise the mandatory retirement age …. However, these policies have reignited calls for differentiated retirement ages that take into account variations in work …

To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we adopted a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and …