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Retirement and memory in Europe.
- Source :
- Ageing & Society; Aug2016, Vol. 36 Issue 7, p1434-1458, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144686X
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ageing & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116638116
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15000434