Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270566 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CINCH Series No. 2017/02
Publisher: 
University of Duisburg-Essen, CINCH - Health Economics Research Center, Essen
Abstract: 
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect individual investment in health-promoting behaviors before retirement. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by the sequence of Italian pension reforms during the 1990s and 2000s, we show that middle-aged Italian makes who were close to regiment age reacted to the expected longer working horizon by increasing regular exercise and by reducing smoking, with positive consequences for obesity and self-reported satisfaction with health.
Subjects: 
Retirement
Working Horizon
Healthy Behaviors
Pension Reforms
JEL: 
H55
I12
J26
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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