Aging, cognitive abilities and retirement

Fabrizio Mazzonna and Franco Peracchi

No 152, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50+. The human capital framework suggests that retirement may cause an increase in cognitive decline, since after retirement individuals lose the market incentive to invest in cognitive repair activities. Our empirical results, based on an instrumental variable strategy to deal with the potential endogeneity of retirement, confirm this key prediction. They also indicate that education plays a fundamental role in explaining heterogeneity in the level of cognitive abilities.

Keywords: Aging; cognitive abilities; retirement; education; SHARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009-12-04, Revised 2012-12-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eec, nep-lab and nep-neu
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