Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10476484 | Journal of Health Economics | 2013 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
The relationship between retirement and mortality is studied with a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway. A series of retirement policy changes in Norway reduced the retirement age for a group of workers but not for others. Difference-in-differences estimation based on monthly birth cohorts and treatment group status show that the early retirement programme significantly reduced the retirement age; this holds true also when we account for programme substitution, for example into the disability pension. Instrumental variables estimation results show no effect on mortality of retirement age; neither do estimation results from a hazard rate model.
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Authors
Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott, Ola L. Vestad,