Does postponing minimum retirement age improve healthy behaviors before retirement? Evidence from middle-aged Italian workers
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that rise minimum retirement age can affect individual investment in health-promoting behaviors before retirement. Using the expected increase in minimum retirement age induced by a 2004 Italian pension reform and a difference-in-differences research design, we show that middle-aged Italian males affected by the reform reacted to the longer working horizon by increasing regular exercise, with positive consequences for obesity and self-reported satisfaction with health.
BERTONI Marco;
BRUNELLO Giorgio;
MAZZARELLA Gianluca;
2018-05-02
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
JRC107185
0167-6296,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629617310184?via%3Dihub,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC107185,
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.02.011,
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