The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game

Eve Caroli, Catherine Pollak () and Muriel Roger
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Catherine Pollak: DREES - Centre de Recherche du DREES - Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims and nonhospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for all treated groups, while the duration of sick leaves remains unchanged. Delaying retirement does not increase the probability of seeing a GP, except for men in the younger cohorts. In contrast, it raises the probability of having a visit with a specialist physician for all individuals, except men in the older cohorts. Delaying retirement also increases the probability of seeing a physiotherapist among women from the older cohorts. Overall, it increases health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution.

Keywords: pension reform; retirement age; health; health-care consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10
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Published in 2022

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Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2023)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2023)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
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