The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes

Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad, Jasmina Spasojevic

NBER Working Paper No. 12123
Issued in March 2006

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We are grateful to Angela Dills, Michael Grossman, Julie Hotchkiss, Richard Kaplan, Donald Kenkel, Sean Nicholson, Henry Saffer, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. In addition, we wish to thank seminar participants at the 2007 International Health Economics Association World Congress, the 2006 American Society of Health Economists Conference, the 2007 Eastern Economics Association Conference, Georgia State University, and the 2006 Public Policies and Child-Well Being Conference sponsored by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University for helpful comments on earlier versions of the paper. The authors would also like to thank their respective schools for research support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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