Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177807 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA World of Labor [ISSN:] 2054-9571 [Article No.:] 430 [Publisher:] Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [Place:] Bonn [Year:] 2018
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to foster improvements in retirees' health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily routines, physical and/or mental activity, a sense of identity and purpose, and social interactions, which may lead them to adopt unhealthy behaviors. Depending on the relative importance of the different mechanisms, retirement may either improve or cause a deterioration of retirees' health, or eventually have no effect on it at all.
Subjects: 
retirement
mental and physical health
mortality
health behavior
reverse causality
heterogeneous effects
JEL: 
I10
I12
J14
J26
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Document Type: 
Article

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