In this chapter, we review the evidence on retirement and study the role of incentives in the
retirement decision. The key patterns of withdrawal from the labor market are presented and …

This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the
causal effect of spousal retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 …

This paper estimates the causal impact of retirement on the Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults
aged 50–69 years old, on the probability of being either overweight or obese and on the …

This paper analyses the effects of increasing the statutory retirement age for claiming full
pension benefits on the labour force participation of middle-aged individuals and their …

In this paper we exploit the introduction of an early retirement reform in Norway to provide
new evidence on interactions in public policies across programs and household members …

Current methods of cost effectiveness analysis implicitly assume zero spillovers among
social ties. This can underestimate the benefits of health interventions and misallocate …

This study applies Feldman and Beehr's three-step model to examine retirement as a
decision-making process leading from retirement thoughts to retirement plans and from …

This paper examines the possibility of including cash-for-care benefits in life care annuities
(LCAs) to help retired couples to cope with the cost of long-term care (LTC). The paper …

Evidence from different sources shows that spouses' retirement decisions are correlated.
Retirement policies affecting individuals in couples are therefore also likely to affect …

Despite an increasing number of studies measuring the effect of retirement on individual
well-being, research on spillover effects of one spouse's retirement on another spouse's well …