| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Your retirement and my health behavior : evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design |
| Authors: | Müller, Tobias Shaikh, Mujaheed |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005 |
| Published in: | Journal of Health Economics |
| Volume(Issue): | 57 |
| Page(s): | 45 |
| Pages to: | 59 |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1879-1646 0167-6296 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Retirement externality; fuzzy regression; Discontinuity design; Health behavior |
| Subject (DDC): | 610: Medicine and health |
| Abstract: | This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal effect of spousal retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement effects by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design using retirement eligibility as exogenous instruments for spousal and own retirement status. We find significant increases in the frequency and intensity of alcohol consumption combined with a significant decrease in moderate physical activities as a response to partner's retirement. In line with the existing literature, we find that own retirement has significant positive effects on engaging in moderate and vigorous physical activities but also leads to a significant increase in the frequency of alcohol intake. Overall, subjective health is negatively affected by spousal retirement and positively by own retirement. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/6997 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Müller, T., & Shaikh, M. (2017). Your retirement and my health behavior : evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Journal of Health Economics, 57, 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005
Müller, T. and Shaikh, M. (2017) ‘Your retirement and my health behavior : evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design’, Journal of Health Economics, 57, pp. 45–59. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005.
T. Müller and M. Shaikh, “Your retirement and my health behavior : evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design,” Journal of Health Economics, vol. 57, pp. 45–59, 2017, doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005.
MÜLLER, Tobias und Mujaheed SHAIKH, 2017. Your retirement and my health behavior : evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Journal of Health Economics. 2017. Bd. 57, S. 45–59. DOI 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005
Müller, Tobias, and Mujaheed Shaikh. 2017. “Your Retirement and My Health Behavior : Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design.” Journal of Health Economics 57: 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005.
Müller, Tobias, and Mujaheed Shaikh. “Your Retirement and My Health Behavior : Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design.” Journal of Health Economics, vol. 57, 2017, pp. 45–59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005.
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