Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64392 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 09-149
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
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
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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