Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does it Affect Retirement?

Maria Fitzpatrick

No 19524, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of retiree health insurance for public school employees in combination with administrative data on their retirement to identify the effects of retiree health insurance. As expected, the availability of retiree health insurance for older workers allows employees to retire earlier. These behavioral changes have budgetary implications, likely making the programs self-financing rather than costly to taxpayers.

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Date: 2013-10
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Published as Fitzpatrick, Maria D., 2014. "Retiree health insurance for public school employees: Does it affect retirement?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 88-98.
Published as Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees: Does It Affect Retirement? , Maria D. Fitzpatrick. in State and Local Health Plans for Active and Retired Public Employees , Clark and Newhouse. 2014

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