Tag: health

African American businesswoman raising hand, asking question in business conference

Abstract Older Americans have been retiring later for a number of reasons, including jobs that are becoming less physically demanding, the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions, and changes in Social Security’s incentives. What are the implications of working longer for workers’ mortality and health? Answering this question is complicated, because work and…

African American businesswoman raising hand, asking question in business conference

Abstract This paper examines the association of structural discriminatory risk factors and health with retirement age.  It uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).  Critical components of the analysis include ordinary least squares regressions to evaluate associations of discrimination (major lifetime discrimination, neighborhood disadvantage, work discrimination and everyday discrimination) and health with retirement age,…