Tag: retirement community
May all your dreams come true. This hope, displayed on a sign in The Villages retirement community in north central Florida, is why thousands of people flock there every year to retire. During my annual holiday trek to visit my 84-year-old mother in Orlando, my husband and I drove her to The Villages to visit…
Abstract This paper examines the impact of work and retirement on the size, density, and composition of older Americans’ social networks. It uses novel panel data from the first two waves of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Critical components of the analysis include the development of an instrumental variable fixed-effect estimation strategy based…
