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 …

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 …

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 …

the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue …

the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue …

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 …

-favored retirement accounts in Germany in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor …