Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing …

foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … or cause a deterioration of retirees’ health, or eventually have no effect on it at all. …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in … health, the cost of which is dependent on health insurance coverage. We find that the incentives faced by older workers …