Health and retirement: Heterogeneity in the responsiveness to pension incentives

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2024
Volume: 238
Issue: C

Authors (3)

Hsu, De Fen (not in RePEc) Morrill, Melinda (North Carolina State Universit...) Pathak, Aditi (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Workers often time retirement around pension eligibility, yielding a strong instrument for retirement timing. By estimating the characteristics of the complier population, we find heterogeneity by individual health status in the responsiveness to pension-related financial incentives to retire. Workers in poor health do not uniformly retire earlier or later, but rather are less responsive overall to pension incentives. Thus, characterizing compliers may yield different conclusions than simple comparisons of means.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:238:y:2024:i:c:s0165176524001605
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-26