Retirement and memory in Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID11200199
AuthorsLAURA BIANCHINI (Collegio Carlo Alberto), MARGHERITA BORELLA (0000-0001-7514-9203, Collegio Carlo Alberto, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume36
Issue7
Pages1434-1458
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x15000434
OpenAlexW2266788669
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

We investigate the effect of retirement on memory using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The availability of a panel data-set allows individual heterogeneity to be controlled for when estimating the effect of transitions into retirement on a commonly employed memory measure, word recall. We control for endogeneity of the retirement decision applying an instrumental variable technique to our fixed-effects transformation. Our main finding is that, conditional on the average non-linear memory age path of the typical individual, time spent in retirement has a positive effect on word recall

Ageing · Cognitive psychology · Control (management) · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Health and Retirement Study · Instrumental variable · Panel data · Recall · Set (abstract data type) · Word (group theory) · Computer Science · Global Health Care Issues · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Gerontology

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