Quels effets de la retraite sur la santé ?

Olivier L’Haridon, Pierre-Jean Messe and François-Charles Wolff
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Olivier L'Haridon

Revue française d'économie, 2018, vol. XXXIII, issue 1, 103-154

Abstract: This article investigates the health effect of retirement. Analysing the related theoretical and empirical literature, we identify the different channels through which the transition into retirement affects the individuals? health. Regarding the theory, we show the extent to which the individuals have interest to invest in their health over the life cycle and how the retirement influences the evolution of the health capital. A survey of the empirical literature highlights that assessing the causal effect of retirement on health is not straightforward because of potential measurement errors and reverse causality. Using the French Labour Force Surveys over the period 2013-2016, we illustrate and try to address these biases using a difference-in-differences estimator combined with propensity score matching methods. Our results suggest that the transition into retirement has a positive effect on the individuals? self-reported health.

Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFE_181_0103 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-economie-2018-1-page-103.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
Working Paper: Quels effets de la retraite sur la santé ? (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:rferfe:rfe_181_0103

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue française d'économie from Presses de Sciences-Po
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().