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| Title: | | Retiree health benefits and the decision to retire  |
| Authors: | | Marton, James Woodbury, Stephen A. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Upjohn Institute Working Paper 09-149 |
| Abstract: | | We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of men observed over a period of up to 12 years in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our main concern is that such estimates may be contaminated by unobserved heterogeneity-workers with a taste for early retirement sort into jobs offering RHBs. We attempt to address this concern by using a fixed-effects estimator, which yields substantially smaller estimates of the effect of RHB offers than estimators that do not attempt to control for unobservables. The findings suggest that an RHB offer increased the probability of retirement by 14 percent on average for men born between 1931 and 1941. |
| Subjects: | | Retirement Health Insurance Employee Benefits Unobserved Effects |
| JEL: | | J26 I18 D14 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Upjohn Institute Working Papers, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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