Mental retirement and health selection: Analyses from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

Sean A.P. Clouston and Nicole Denier

Social Science & Medicine, 2017, vol. 178, issue C, 78-86

Abstract: Research has recently suggested that retirement may decrease cognitive engagement, resulting in cognitive aging. Few studies have systematically documented whether or how selectivity into retirement shapes the relationship between retirement and cognitive aging.

Keywords: United States; Cognitive aging; Memory; Mental retirement; Longitudinal modeling; Disuse; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.019

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