Journal
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Volume 225, Issue -, Pages 85-97Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.003
Keywords
Retirement; Mental health; Distributional regression
Funding
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- European Commission through the 5th Framework Programme [QLK6-CT-2001-00360]
- European Commission through the 6th Framework Programme [RII-CT-2006-062193, CIT5-CT-2005-028857, CIT4-CT-2006-028812]
- European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme [211909, 227822, 261982]
- U.S. National Institute on Aging [U0l AG09740-13S2, POI AG005842, P0l AG08291, P30 AG12815, R21 AG025169, Yl-AG-4553-01, IAG BSR06-11, OGHA 04-064]
- German Ministry of Education and Research
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We analyze the causal effect of retirement on mental health, exploiting differences in retirement eligibility ages across countries and over time using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We estimate not only average effects, but also use distributional regression to examine whether these effects are unequally distributed across the mental health distribution. We find unequally distributed protective effects of retirement on mental health. These gains are larger among those just below and above the clinically defined threshold of being at risk of depression. The preserving effects are larger for women and blue collar workers. Our results suggest that the magnitude of the protective effect is independent of the availability of family support.
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