The causal effect of retirement on health: New evidence from Australian pension reform

Kadir Atalay and Garry Barrett

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 3, 392-395

Abstract: The causal effect of retirement on health is studied using the Australian 1993 Age Pension reform to isolate exogenous variation in retirement status. Using instrumental variable methods we find that retirement has a positive impact on subjective and objective measures of health.

Keywords: Retirement; Health status; Pension reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I10 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.10.028

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