Tag: aging
Abstract We show that earnings over the life cycle and health and productivity around retirement age vary with exposure to economic conditions in early life. Using state-year-level variation from the most severe and prolonged economic downturn in American history – the Great Depression – combined with restricted microdata from the Health and Retirement Study, w…
If you need help managing your finances in old age, it’s a lot of work to find someone – and not a very pleasant task to think about. But it’s crucial that retirees plan for this. As to when or whether you might need help, it really depends on your individual circumstance. Attorney and researcher…
