Mazzonna, Fabrizio Peracchi, Franco 2014-02-08 We investigate the causal effect of retirement on health and cognitive abilities by exploiting the variation between and within European countries in old age retirement rules. We show negative and significant effect of retirement on both health and cognitive abilities. We also show evidence of significant heterogeneity across occupational groups. In particular, the negative effect of retirement disappears and turn to be even positive for those working in very physically demanding jobs. application/pdf https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318607 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318607 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318607/files/WP1401.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318607 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Aging cognitive abilities retirement occupation SHARE info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Unhealthy retirement? Evidence of occupation heterogeneity http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_816b