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Personality and Employment Transitions at Older Ages: Direct and Indirect Effects through Non-Monetary Job Characteristics.

Labour (Rome, Italy : Online)

Angrisani M, Hurd MD, Meijer E, Parker AM, Rohwedder S.
PMID: 28890652
Labour (Rome). 2017 Jun;31(2):127-152. doi: 10.1111/labr.12090. Epub 2017 Feb 06.

We study whether individuals with different personality traits systematically exhibit different retirement trajectories. We find weak direct associations between personality and employment transitions. On the other hand, personality does contribute indirectly to these transitions by moderating the effects of...

Framing and Claiming: How Information-Framing Affects Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior.

The Journal of risk and insurance

Brown JR, Kapteyn A, Mitchell OS.
PMID: 28579641
J Risk Insur. 2016 Mar;83(1):139-162. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2013.12004.x. Epub 2013 Jul 10.

This paper provides evidence that Social Security benefit claiming decisions are strongly affected by framing and are thus inconsistent with expected utility theory. Using a randomized experiment that controls for both observable and unobservable differences across individuals, we find...

Portfolio choice in retirement: Health risk and the demand for annuities, housing, and risky assets.

Journal of monetary economics

Yogo M.
PMID: 27766005
J Monet Econ. 2016 Jun;80:17-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2016.04.008. Epub 2016 Apr 30.

In a life-cycle model, a retiree faces stochastic health depreciation and chooses consumption, health expenditure, and the allocation of wealth between bonds, stocks, and housing. The model explains key facts about asset allocation and health expenditure across health status...

Retrospective life course data from European countries on how early life experiences determine health in old age and possible mid-life mediators.

Data in brief

Pakpahan E, Hoffmann R, Kröger H.
PMID: 27995163
Data Brief. 2016 Dec 07;10:277-282. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.11.094. eCollection 2017 Feb.

The data presented in this article is related to the research paper entitled "The long arm of childhood circumstances on health in old age: Evidence from SHARELIFE" (E. Pakpahan, R. Hoffmann, H. Kröger, 2016) [1]. It presents the distribution...

How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios.

The review of financial studies

Hubener A, Maurer R, Mitchell OS.
PMID: 28659659
Rev Financ Stud. 2016 Apr;29(4):937-978. doi: 10.1093/rfs/hhv070. Epub 2015 Nov 19.

We show how optimal household decisions regarding work, retirement, saving, portfolio allocations, and life insurance are shaped by the complex financial options embedded in U.S. Social Security rules and uncertain family transitions. Our life cycle model predicts sharp consumption...

The Value of Delaying Alzheimer's Disease Onset.

Forum for health economics & policy

Zissimopoulos J, Crimmins E, St Clair P.
PMID: 27134606
Forum Health Econ Policy. 2014 Nov;18(1):25-39. doi: 10.1515/fhep-2014-0013. Epub 2014 Nov 04.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) extracts a heavy societal toll. The value of medical advances that delay onset of AD could be significant. Using data from nationally representative samples from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2008) and Aging Demographics and Memory...

Cognitive Test Performance in Relation to Health and Function in 12 European Countries: The SHARE Study.

Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ

Sterniczuk R, Theou O, Rusak B, Rockwood K.
PMID: 26495048
Can Geriatr J. 2015 Sep 30;18(3):144-51. doi: 10.5770/cgj.18.154. eCollection 2015 Sep.

BACKGROUND: Even subtle impairments on cognitive test scores can be associated with future cognitive decline and dementia. We assayed the relationships between test score impairment and adverse outcomes.METHODS: Secondary analyses were performed on data from non-institutionalized participants, 50+ years...

Linking Quality of Work in Midlife to Volunteering During Retirement: a European Study.

Journal of population ageing

Wahrendorf M, Blane D, Matthews K, Siegrist J.
PMID: 27069517
J Popul Ageing. 2016;9:113-130. doi: 10.1007/s12062-015-9129-8. Epub 2015 Jul 08.

There is increasing recognition that disadvantaged work and employment conditions over the life course, including psychosocial stress at work, have negative long-term effects on health at older ages. Yet, the question whether stress at work additionally influences the likelihood...

Retirement timing of women and the role of care responsibilities for grandchildren.

Demography

Lumsdaine RL, Vermeer SJ.
PMID: 25828723
Demography. 2015 Apr;52(2):433-54. doi: 10.1007/s13524-015-0382-5.

This article considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find that the arrival of a new grandchild is...

Forgone health care due to cost among older adults in European countries and in Israel.

European journal of ageing

Litwin H, Sapir EV.
PMID: 23293574
Eur J Ageing. 2009 Sep;6(3):167-176. doi: 10.1007/s10433-009-0126-8.

This study sought to identify the principal factors that predict forgone health care due to cost among European and Israeli older adults. The analysis applied the Andersen-Newman model of health service utilization to data from the first wave of...

The Frailty Instrument of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-FI) predicts mortality beyond age, comorbidities, disability, self-rated health, education and depression.

European geriatric medicine

Romero-Ortuno R.
PMID: 22180765
Eur Geriatr Med. 2011 Dec 01;2(6):323-326. doi: 10.1016/j.eurger.2011.08.005.

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Age, Health and Life Satisfaction Among Older Europeans.

Social indicators research

Angelini V, Cavapozzi D, Corazzini L, Paccagnella O.
PMID: 22207782
Soc Indic Res. 2012 Jan;105(2):293-308. doi: 10.1007/s11205-011-9882-x. Epub 2011 Jun 15.

In this paper we investigate how age affects the self-reported level of life satisfaction among the elderly in Europe. By using a vignette approach, we find evidence that age influences life satisfaction through two counterbalancing channels. On the one...

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