Healthier when retiring earlier? Evidence from France

Pierre-Jean Messe and François-Charles Wolff

No 1703, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) from CEPREMAP

Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on the health-retirement relationship by looking at the effect of retiring before legal age on health in later life in France. To account for the endogeneity of the early retirement decision, our identification strategy relies on eligibility rules to a long-career-based early retirement scheme introduced in France starting from 2004 that substantially increased the proportion of older workers leaving their last job before the legal age of 60 years. We find a positive association between early retirement treated first as exogenous and health problems among retirees. However, we fail to evidence any causal effect of early retirement on poor health once we account for the endogeneity of the decision to retire before the legal age. Controlling for working conditions has no influence on our results and occupying a demanding job is harmful to health after retirement regardless of the retirement date.

Keywords: early retirement; self-assessed health; working conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2017-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eur and nep-hea
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