Does retirement age impact mortality?

Arbeitspapier

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the retirement age for a group of workers but not for others. By employing a difference-in-differences framework based on monthly birth cohort and treatment group status we first establish that the early retirement program significantly reduced the retirement age - this remains true when we account for program substitution, for example into the disability pension. Using instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Memorandum ; No. 19/2012

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Health: General ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Retirement; Retirement Policies
• Thema: Retirement age ; Mortality ; Instrumental variables ; Policy evaluation ; Altersgrenze ; Sterblichkeit ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Instrumentalvariablen-Schätzmethode ; Norwegen

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hernaes, Erik ; Markussen, Simen ; Piggott, John ; Vestad, Ola
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Oslo, Department of Economics
• (wo): Oslo
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/90737
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ