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The Retirement-Health Nexus: A New Measure of an Old Puzzle
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Traditional empirical models of retirement which use a self-assessed health measure have often found that the wage rate has a surprisingly small effect on retirement. Using both a self-reported health measure and one not based on self-report (subsequent mortality experience) in a more general reduced-form joint-demand framework, we test the importance of the interaction effects of health and retirement. Our findings are consistent with a joint determination of health and retirement. The wage elasticity using either health measure is about equal to that found in a single-equation model when a mortality measure is used, but all three elasticities are five times greater than one found using self-reported health in a traditional single-equation model.
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- Authors
- Anderson, K. H., & Burkhauser, R. V.
- Venue
- The Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1985
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 315
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1544868124
- Cited by
- 272
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 10.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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