The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game

Eve Caroli (), Catherine Pollak and Muriel Roger
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Eve Caroli: PSL Université Paris Dauphine
Catherine Pollak: New York University

No 15998, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims and non-hospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for all treated groups, while the overall number of sick days remains unchanged, conditional on having a sick leave. Delaying retirement does not increase the probability of seeing a GP, except for men in the younger cohorts. In contrast, it raises the probability of having a visit with a specialist physician for all individuals, except men in the older cohorts. Delaying retirement also increases the probability of seeing a physiotherapist among women from the older cohorts. Overall, it increases health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution.

Keywords: pension reform; retirement age; health; health-care consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J14 J18 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2023-03
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Published - published in: Economie et Statistique/Economics and Statistics, 2023, 538, 49-67

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Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
Working Paper: The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game (2022)
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