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Gema Zamarro

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Does Retirement Impact Health Care Utilization?, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro Oct 2015

Does Retirement Impact Health Care Utilization?, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro

Gema Zamarro

The objective of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of retirement on health care utilization. To do so, we use data from the 1992-2008 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the 2004-2006 waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).In particular, we estimate the causal impact of retirement on health care utilization as measured by: doctor visits, visits to a general practitioner, nights in the hospital, and preventative care use. This paper uses panel data and instrumental variable methods, exploiting variation in statutory retirement ages across countries, to estimate the causal …

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How Does Retirement Impact Health Behaviors? An International Comparison, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro Sep 2015

How Does Retirement Impact Health Behaviors? An International Comparison, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro

Gema Zamarro

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a consensus. This could be due to actual differences in the relationship of interest between countries or due to methodological differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health using consistent estimation techniques on three harmonized longitudinal data sets, representative of the United States, England, and continental Europe. Using panel data and instrumental variable methods exploiting variation in statutory retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health …

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Retirement Effects On Health In Europe, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro Dec 2010

Retirement Effects On Health In Europe, Norma Coe, Gema Zamarro

Gema Zamarro

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes continues around the world, it is important to know both the costs and benefits for the individual as well as the governments’ budgets. In this paper we use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a multi-country setting. We use country-specific early and full retirement ages as an instrument for retirement behavior. These statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual’s health. Exploiting the discontinuities in retirement …

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