TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hallberg, Daniel
AU  - Johansson, Per
AU  - Josephson, Malin
        TI  - Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
        PY  - 2014/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8260
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8260
        AB  - This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the mandatory retirement age may thus not only have positive government income effects but also negative effects on increasing government health care expenditures.
        KW  - inpatient care
KW  - retirement
KW  - health care
KW  - pensions
KW  - occupational pensions
KW  - mortality
KW  - health
        ER  -