This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of … the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, non-parametric matching methods can be … applied to identify causal effects. It is found that retirement significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a …

We explore the effects of retirement on both physical and mental ill-health and whether these change in the presence of … relationship between retirement and health and a difference-in-differences approach combined with matching to investigate whether … the health effects of retirement are affected by the Great Recession. We estimate these models on data drawn from the …

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

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …

This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … correcting for it, we find that the average effect of retirement on health outcomes is small and barely significant. We apply …

support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental wellbeing around … retirement and consider both own and spouse's retirement. Using longitudinal data from Australia, we find little effect of own or … spouse's retirement on social support. However, in fixed-effects models, dynamics in mental wellbeing are significantly …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to …Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we … retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims …

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 …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …