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