Health consequences of retirement due to non-health reasons or poor health.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to contribute to our understanding of the complex linkage between retirement and health by estimating health consequences of retirement transitions that were not driven by health reasons separately from those caused by poor health, while taking into consideration the health differences that exist between individuals who engage in different labor force behaviors.

Methods

Ten waves of rich data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (N = 9,347; 52,658 person-wave observations) were used to estimate within-person associations between retirement transitions and subsequent health, assessed with self-rated health and depressive symptoms. To account for the bidirectional relationship between retirement and health, retiree's self-reports of the reasons

SUBMITTER: Han SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8021097 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature