Retirement and Healthy Eating

Martina Celidoni, Chiara Dal Bianco (), Vincenzo Rebba () and Guglielmo Weber

Fiscal Studies, 2020, vol. 41, issue 1, 199-219

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of retirement on healthy eating using data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We estimate the causal effect of retiring from work on daily fruit or vegetable consumption by exploiting policy changes in eligibility rules for early and statutory retirement. Our results show that changes in eating behaviour upon retirement are gender‐specific: retirement induces men to reduce healthy eating; it has no effect on women. We further show that, for men, retirement increases the probability of becoming obese.

Date: 2020
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