Tag: health shocks

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The brief’s key findings are: More than a third of older workers retire earlier than planned: the question is why? This study looks at: 1) the impact of unexpected changes in health, employment, family, and finances on early retirement; and 2) the prevalence of these shocks. The findings suggest that: Health shocks play the largest…

Make sure you’re hydrated after exercising

Abstract A long and still growing strand of the retirement literature examines the role financial incentives play in the timing of the retirement decision.  A more recent second strand of work has focused on the role of health shocks in the retirement decision.  This paper combines these two components of the literature in order to…