We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous … a tax reform targeted at low income individuals on employment behavior and retirement decisions. …

, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … role of contributing factors, including health, perceived control, and social orientation. To do so, we applied shared … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results …