This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …, increased sleep duration and more frequent physical exercise seem to be key mechanisms through which retirement affects health …

In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …

concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP … satisfaction indeed is decreasing before retirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after …

, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal … data sets from Britain and Germany to estimate hazard models of the effect of health on early retirement. The hazard models … show that health is a key determinant of the retirement hazard for both men and women in Britain and Germany. The size of …

, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal … data sets from Britain and Germany to estimate hazard models of the effect of health on early retirement. The hazard models … show that health is a key determinant of the retirement hazard for both men and women in Britain and Germany. The size of …

This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no significant effects … left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …

and mental health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and fixed-effect regression models, we show that … those individuals who socialize more frequently enjoy better mental health. We also find that stronger social ties moderate …

This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well …