PARC Working Paper Series
Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
3-1998
Abstract
We explore alternative measures of unobserved health status in order to identify effects of mental and physical capacity for work on older men’s retirement. Traditional self-ratings of poor health are tested against more objectively measured instruments. Using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find that health problems influence retirement plans more strongly than do economic variables. Specifically, men in poor overall health expected to retire one to two years earlier, an effect that persists after correcting for potential endogeneity of self-rated health problems. The effects of detailed health problems are also examined in depth.
Keywords
measurement of health, retirement, ADL/IADL, self-reported and objective health
Date Posted: 02 March 2020
Comments
Recommended citation:
Dwyer, Debra S. and Olivia S. Mitchell. 1998. "Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?" PARC Working Paper Series, WPS 98-02.
This working paper was published in a journal:
Dwyer, Debra S. and Olivia S. Mitchell. 1998. "Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?" Journal of Health Economics 18(2):173-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6296(98)00034-4.