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 …

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a … an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The … estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a … an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The … estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort … conclusions. We provide evidence that the increase in the retirement age negatively affects health outcomes as the prevalence of …

This paper develops the first formal analysis of this length of retired life by incorporating retirement and Social … interdependencies between length of life and retirement age (some of it identified in recent literature (Waldron 2001)). Using data from … the Longitudinal Retirement History Survey, we find that greater benefits increase age at death by about half as much as …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …