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Health and retirement: Heterogeneity in the responsiveness to pension incentives

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  • Hsu, De Fen
  • Morrill, Melinda
  • Pathak, Aditi

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Workers often time retirement around pension eligibility, yielding a strong instrument for retirement timing. By estimating the characteristics of the complier population, we find heterogeneity by individual health status in the responsiveness to pension-related financial incentives to retire. Workers in poor health do not uniformly retire earlier or later, but rather are less responsive overall to pension incentives. Thus, characterizing compliers may yield different conclusions than simple comparisons of means.

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  • Hsu, De Fen & Morrill, Melinda & Pathak, Aditi, 2024. "Health and retirement: Heterogeneity in the responsiveness to pension incentives," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:238:y:2024:i:c:s0165176524001605
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111677
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    Keywords

    Retirement timing; Pensions; Public sector workers; Health;
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    JEL classification:

    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General

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