Unplanned Costs and Benefits: Gender and Spousal Spillover Effects of Retirement on Health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our study assesses how women and men's health indicators are shaped by their spouse's retirement.

Background

The retirement process can reshape the health of a retiree, but these effects can also extend onto the health of spouses. Although past research has largely focused on how men's retirement might negatively shape their wife's health outcomes, it is possible that wives' retirement has detrimental effects on their husband's health as well.

Method

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effects of spousal retirement on indicators of physical and mental health in married older adults.

Results

Our results suggested that men, not women, experience the most negative

SUBMITTER: Newmyer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798816 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature