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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high …
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In this paper we investigate the influence of financial incentives on agents' commitment success who use a self-bet mechanism to overcome their self-control problems. We use results from the theoretical model developed in Hirt-Schierbaum and Ivets (2020) that allows for heuristic bias in agents'...
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This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...
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In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply …
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We study the labor supply effects and welfare implications of introducing a universal means-tested old-age assistance program in times of very limited social protection. We take advantage of a unique historical reform: The Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided...
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health …, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … and within countries and use retirement thresholds in an instrumental variable setting. On average, we find that entering …
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We analyze the causal effect of retirement on mental health, exploiting differences in retirement eligibility ages … across countries and over time using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We estimate not only … mental health distribution. We find unequally distributed protective effects of retirement on mental health. These gains are …
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retirement. The analysis is conducted on administrative data from social security records and on survey data in a comparative … average retirement is postponed by five months due to financial incentives via actuarial adjustments. However, this response … is about 40 per cent lower for manual workers compared to non-manual workers which indicates that their retirement income …
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retirement. The analysis is conducted on administrative data from social security records and on survey data in a comparative … average retirement is postponed by five months due to financial incentives via actuarial adjustments. However, this response … is about 40 per cent lower for manual workers compared to non-manual workers which indicates that their retirement income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814381