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 …

The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have … provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health positively or negatively is still unclear. Our … primary objective is to investigate the impact of retirement on mental health as measured by the 20-item Center for …

retirement regulations moderate the effects, thus emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health in old age for …Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This …

Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper applies two widely used methods to estimate the additional health capacity to work. The … to explore the health capacity to work among older persons. Using census data and data from the China Health and … results confirm large untapped work capacity in the population of older persons, but the additional health capacity to work is …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … mandatory retirement age may thus not only have positive government income effects but also negative effects on increasing … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …

the mechanisms that drive positive retirement program results, we find evidence that changes in individual health … introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older …