Evidence increasingly shows that changes to social security policies can affect population
mental health. Thus, in the context of rising burden of mental illness, it is of major importance …

To sustain a viable public pension system, many governments have increased the statutory
retirement age and delayed the age of entitlement to public pension benefits. This …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a
Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit financial incentives in the German pension …

We utilize panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the impact of
retirement on physical and mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization …

We show that a new measure of cognitive decline, that can be computed in longitudinal
surveys where respondents perform the same recall memory tests over the years, is highly …

This paper analyses the short-and longer-term effects of retirement on mental health in ten
European countries. It exploits thresholds created by state pension ages in an individual …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of elderly in developed countries? I exploit the booms
and busts in the US stock market as a natural experiment that generated considerable gains …

This essay estimates the health effects of increasing the normal retirement age using
Swedish administrative data on drug prescriptions, hospitalizations, and mortality. To this …

This paper estimates the impact of early retirement on mortality using Dutch administrative
micro panel data. An unexpected temporary decrease in the eligibility age for retirement …

This study examines the effect of employment on elderly men's health. A typical OLS
analysis yields a positive relationship between employment and health for individuals in …