Retirement Reversals and Health Insurance: the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act

Joshua Congdon-Hohman

No 1501, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper uses the longitudinal aspect of the Health and Retirement Study to explore the characteristics associated with reversals in retirement (referred to here as "unretirement"). Through the use of survival time analysis, this paper shows that health insurance status and its source are signi cant predictors of unretirement decisions. The relationship is important as the potential impacts of the Affordable Care Act are considered. By comparing the role of health insurance provision to the impact of financial "shocks", the analysis finds that insurance is equally important as other financial explanations for retirement reversals. The analysis also shows that health insurance source plays a particularly important role for those who were previously open to the idea of working in retirement while they were still working.

Keywords: Retirement; Unretirement; Retirement reversals; Health insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J22 J26 J32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-07
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Published in Public Finance Review, Volume 46, Number 4, July 2018, Pages 583-608.

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